Definition of "fitchew" []

• Archaic The Old World polecat or its fur. (noun)

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• "To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I would not care; but to be Menelaus!"
• "Cas’Tis such another fitchew! marry, a perfumed one."
• "The fitchew, 22 nor the soiled23 horse, goes to ’t"