different between fess vs fress

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)

1. 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)

1. (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.

Translations

Etymology 3

Adjective

fess

1. (British dialect) Proud; conceited.
2. (British dialect) Lively; active; strong.
3. (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)

1. (colloquial, dated) smart, stylish, chic

Declension

Etymology 2

fest +? -j

Verb

fess

1. second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of fest

References

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French fesse

Noun

fess

1. 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)

2. fez

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• Fess (alternative capitalization)

Noun

fess m (definite singular fessen, indefinite plural fessar, definite plural fessane)

2. (music) F-flat

Derived terms

• fess-dur m
• fess-moll m

References

• “fess” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Verb

·fess

1. passive singular perfect prototonic of ro·finnadar

Mutation

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French fesse

Noun

fess

1. bottom, buttock, arse

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

English

Etymology

From Yiddish ??????? (fresn) or German fressen (“to devour, gobble”), from Middle High German vrezzen, from Old High German frezzan (“to devour, eat up”), from Proto-Germanic *fraetan? (“to eat up”), from *fra- (intensive and perfective prefix) + *etan? (“to eat”), equivalent to for- +? eat. Cognate with Old English fretan (“to devour”). Doublet of fret.

In German, fressen (eat) and saufen (drink) are used about non-humans, whereas the corresponding words used about human behavior are essen and trinken. "Es trinkt der Mann, es säuft das Pferd / bei manchem ist es umgekehrt" ("the man drinks, the horse gulps it down / [but] with many it's the other way 'round") is a common humorous couplet in German with many variations (e.g., ...in Bayern ist es...)

Verb

fress (third-person singular simple present fresses, present participle fressing, simple past and past participle fressed)

1. (obsolete) to eat without restraint; eat heartily

   Synonym: pig out

Anagrams

• serfs

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fr?s?/

  Rhymes: -?s?

Noun

fress n (genitive singular fress, nominative plural fress) or fress m (genitive singular fress, nominative plural fressar)

1. tomcat

Declension

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