Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to hit; esp. as fetch someone one.

[1573		New Custom II iii: Holde your handes you rude knaue or by goddes bodie I sweare, I wyll quickley fetche my fyst from your eare].
1737		H. Carey Dragon of Wantley III i: Come, Mr. Dragon, or by Jove I’ll fetch you; / I’ll trim your Rascals Jacket, if I catch you.
1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 486: Yet did the cudgel crack his crown, / And fetch’d him with a rattle down.
1797		Bridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) I 219: A knock I’ll fetch you, if I can.
1819		‘One of the Fancy’ Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress 25: In the Twelth and Last Round SANDY fetch’d him a downer.
1825		‘West-Country Bumpkin’s Description’ Universal Songster I 230: I’d have fetch’d him a punch in the face.
1838		T. Haliburton Clockmaker II 250: She fetched me a deuce of a clip on the side of the face.
1840		Era 20 Dec. 5/4: He fetched me a wipe, wot knocked me down stairs .
1853		Dickens Bleak House (1991) 143: In consequence of young Perkins having ‘fetched’ young Piper ‘a crack’.
1866		Wild Boys of London I 19/2: Go it Pug; he hit you, he did; hit ’im agin. Fetch him a clout in the hie.
1874		J. Greenwood Wilds of London (1881) 144: She fetched him a spank for tumbling over.
1883		J. Greenwood Tag, Rag & Co. 29: If I ever got such a ugly customer into my boat, I’d look out for my opportunity and I’d settle him [...] I’d fetch him a crack over the head with a stretcher.
1899		C. Rook Hooligan Nights 168: ’Er muvver took an’ fetched ’er a clip over the ’ead.
1902		J. Masefield ‘Sing a Song o’Shipwreck’ in Salt-Water Ballads 10: So I says ‘Dry up, or I’ll fetch you a crack o’ the head.’.
1914		E. Pugh Cockney At Home 136: Ole Cockles fetches him one with his gingham right across the snitch.
1926		Breton & Bevir Adventures of Mrs. May 109: Fetch ’im a oner side of th’ ’ead.
1934		H. Roth Call It Sleep (1977) 384: Then and there would I have fetched him such a cuff on the jowls.
1943		M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 31: ’Ed fetched ’is ole woman a bash acrorst the jaw.
1962		S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 75: Well, Mandy herself, fetch me a clip on the lughole.
1972		P. Fordham Inside the Und. 169: Em fetches him a swipe with the spoon.
1989		H. Leonard Out After Dark 64: My mother fetched me a dirty look.
1999		Guardian Weekend 5 June 34: He’d fetch her one across the mouth.
2005		P. Hayden Conker Champ 4: I’ll fetch him one next time I git hold of urn, chuckin things out an’ not tellin me.