Plural of 'fet'; a dialectal or archaic plural form, possibly referring to fetches (ghostly double) or variant plural of 'fetus' in some technical usage.
Uncertain origin; possibly a variant plural of 'fetch' (a ghostly apparition or double) from Old English, or a technical plural form in specialized contexts. Rarely used in modern English.
This is a word that haunts the dictionary—'fets' might be the ghostly double of someone (the original meaning of 'fetch'), showing how superstition once shaped our language for things we couldn't explain.
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