farfetch

From far +‎ fetch.

far-fetch, far fetch

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑː(ɹ)fɛt͡ʃ/

farfetch (plural farfetches)

1. (obsolete) Anything brought from afar, or brought about with studious care; a deep stratagem.
   • 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “(please specify the page)”, in Hudibras. The First Part. […], London: […] J. G. for Richard Marriot, […], →OCLC:

     But Jesuits have deeper reaches
     In all their politic far-fetches

2. Long distance
   • 1900 April 7, Jack London, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:

     "`Come!' I said, for I thought she wandered. `Eat of the food and let us be gone. It is a far fetch from here to Akatan.'

• “farfetch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.