Noah Webster
Far-fetched
F'AR-FETCHED, adjective
1. Brought from a remote place.
Whose pains have earned the far-fetched spoil.
2. Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.
York with all his far-fetched policy.
So we say, far-fetched arguments; far-fetched rhymes; far-fetched analogy. [Far-fet, the same, is not used.]