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▪ I. fitchew|ˈfɪtʃuː|
Forms: 5 fechu, fychew, (pl. fecheus, fychews, -eux), 6 fechowe, ficheuxe, fitchewe, 7 fitcholl, fitchaw, 8 fi(t)cher, fitchole, 4– fitchew.
[a. OF. fissel (pl. fissiaulx), later fissau (Cotgr.), a diminutive formation on the word which appears in Du. of 16–17th c. as fisse, visse, vitsche (see Kilian and Hexham).]
1. A foumart, polecat.
1418E.E. Wills (1882) 34 My furre of Fycheux. 1486Bk. St. Albans B vij b, That no fulmertis nor fecheus..com nott in to hir. 1577Harrison England iii. iv. (1878) ii. 25, I might here intreat..of..the weasell..fitchew, and such like. 1688in A. L. Humphreys Hist. Wellington (1889) 125 Pd. for killing of a fitcholl and a hedgehogg 8d. 1752Sir J. Hill Hist. Anim. 547 They all call it..Mustela; we the Weasel, the Foumart, or the Fitcher. 1787Grose Provinc. Gloss., Fitchole, a polecat, fitchet or ficher. 1788Wolcott (P. Pindar) Peter's Pension Wks. 1812 II. 18 Your fowls have suffer'd by the fitchews. 1885Encycl. Brit. XIX. 332/1 To this [its fetid smell] it is indebted for its..English names fitchet, fitchew.
b. Used as a term of contempt.
1604Shakes. Oth. iv. i. 150 'Tis such another Fitchew.
2. The fur of the polecat.
c1394P. Pl. Crede 295 A cote haþ he furred Wiþ foyns or wiþ fitchewes oþer fyn beuer. 1493Will of Squyer (Somerset Ho.) Penulatam cum fychew pollys. 1502Will of Grene (Somerset Ho.) (Gown furred with) Ficheuxe. 1534in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 98 My gowne furryd with ffechowe. 1721Bailey, Fitchow, a Pole-cat..also the skin of it.
▪ II. † ˈfitchew, v. Obs.—1
a1650May Satir. Puppy (1657) 85 Yet this is she..whom Pride did become as a full Oath doth a desperate Gallant: that fichew'd with a degenerate posture of the Chinne. |
