English Dictionary

fetch

IPA（発音記号）

/fɛt͡ʃ/

名詞

方言

(originally Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).

日本語の意味

（アイルランド方言で）生者の幻影、あるいは本人の分身。これが現れると、その人が近いうちに死ぬ前兆とされる。 / 亡霊や幽霊、死後に見られる本人の幻影としての意味も含む。

They whispered that a fetch had been seen wandering the moor the night before, a warning that misfortune might follow.

彼らは、前夜に生者の幻影が荒地をさまよっているのが目撃されたと囁き、それが不幸が訪れる前触れだと言っていた。

意味（1）

(originally Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).

In these dilapidated articles of dress she had, on principle, arrayed herself, time out of mind, on such occasions as the present; for this at once expressed a decent amount of veneration for the deceased, and invited the next of kin to present her with a fresher set of weeds: an appeal so frequently successful, that the very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp, bonnet and all, might be seen hanging up, at any hour of the day, in at least a dozen of the second-hand clothes shops around Holborn.

fetches （ plural ）