diff --git a/lib/internal/bootstrap/web/exposed-window-or-worker.js b/lib/internal/bootstrap/web/exposed-window-or-worker.js
index db5d449dd79be4..7733f711bc6daf 100644
--- a/lib/internal/bootstrap/web/exposed-window-or-worker.js
+++ b/lib/internal/bootstrap/web/exposed-window-or-worker.js
@@ -57,32 +57,21 @@ defineReplaceableLazyAttribute(globalThis, 'perf_hooks', ['performance']);
 const { installObjectURLMethods } = require('internal/url');
 installObjectURLMethods();
 
-{
-  // https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#fetch-method
-  function set(value) {
-    ObjectDefineProperty(globalThis, 'fetch', {
-      __proto__: null,
-      writable: true,
-      value,
-    });
-  }
-  ObjectDefineProperty(globalThis, 'fetch', {
-    __proto__: null,
-    configurable: true,
-    enumerable: true,
-    set,
-    get() {
-      function fetch(input, init = undefined) {
-        // Loading undici alone lead to promises which breaks lots of tests so we
-        // have to load it really lazily for now.
-        const { fetch: impl } = require('internal/deps/undici/undici');
-        return impl(input, init);
-      }
-      set(fetch);
-      return fetch;
-    },
-  });
-}
+let fetchImpl;
+// https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#fetch-method
+ObjectDefineProperty(globalThis, 'fetch', {
+  __proto__: null,
+  configurable: true,
+  enumerable: true,
+  writable: true,
+  value: function value(input, init = undefined) {
+    if (!fetchImpl) { // Implement lazy loading of undici module for fetch function
+      const undiciModule = require('internal/deps/undici/undici');
+      fetchImpl = undiciModule.fetch;
+    }
+    return fetchImpl(input, init);
+  },
+});
 
 // https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#interface-formdata
 // https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#headers-class
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-fetch-mock.js b/test/parallel/test-fetch-mock.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..b457745f1c4c90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-fetch-mock.js
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+const { mock, test } = require('node:test');
+const assert = require('node:assert');
+
+test('should correctly stub globalThis.fetch', async () => {
+  const customFetch = async (url) => {
+    return {
+      text: async () => 'foo',
+    };
+  };
+
+  mock.method(globalThis, 'fetch', customFetch);
+
+  const response = await globalThis.fetch('some-url');
+  const text = await response.text();
+
+  assert.strictEqual(text, 'foo');
+  mock.restoreAll();
+});