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fess
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Etymology 1
From confess, by shortening.
Verb
fess (third-person singular simple present fesses, present participle fessing, simple past and past participle fessed)
- To confess; to admit.
Derived terms
- fess up
Etymology 2
From Old French fesse, an alteration of faisse, from Latin fascia. Doublet of fascia.
Alternative forms
- fesse
Noun
fess (plural fesses)
- (heraldry) A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor’, Norton 2005 p.294:
- Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral—Hum! Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 420:
- The space where the arms of Wolsey used to be is being repainted with his own newly granted arms: azure, on a fess between three lions rampant or, a rose gules, barbed vert, between two Cornish choughs proper.
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor’, Norton 2005 p.294:
Translations
Etymology 3
Adjective
fess
- (British dialect) Proud; conceited.
- (British dialect) Lively; active; strong.
- (British dialect) Of animals, bad-tempered, fierce.
Anagrams
- FSes
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?f???]
- Rhymes: -???
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Viennese German fesch (“smart, stylish”), from English fashionable.
Adjective
fess (comparative fessebb, superlative legfessebb)
- (colloquial, dated) smart, stylish, chic
Declension
Etymology 2
fest +? -j
Verb
fess
- second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of fest
References
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From French fesse
Noun
fess
- bottom, buttock, arse
References
- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Named after the city of Fez, Morocco.
Noun
fess m (definite singular fessen, indefinite plural fessar, definite plural fessane)
- fez
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- Fess (alternative capitalization)
Noun
fess m (definite singular fessen, indefinite plural fessar, definite plural fessane)
- (music) F-flat
Derived terms
- fess-dur m
- fess-moll m
References
- “fess” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish
Verb
·fess
- passive singular perfect prototonic of ro·finnadar
Mutation
Seychellois Creole
Etymology
From French fesse
Noun
fess
- bottom, buttock, arse
References
- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français
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fiss
English
Etymology
From fission by back-formation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Verb
fiss (third-person singular simple present fisses, present participle fissing, simple past and past participle fissed)
- (transitive, nonstandard) To split apart into multiple entities.
- 1998, Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?
- Perhaps every five minutes each person ceases to exist and is fissed, with one descendant instantly replacing the original and the other materializing on a twin Earth somewhere […]
- 1998, Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Venetian fiso, from Latin fixus (“fixed, constant”).
Adjective
fiss (comparative fissor, superlative dar fissorste) (Sette Comuni)
- stable, steady
- hard, firm
- dense, thick
Declension
References
- “fiss” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Old Irish
Noun
fiss ?
- Alternative spelling of fis
Mutation
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