See also: fessée, fessé, and fêsse

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Noun

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fesse (plural fesses)

  1. Alternative spelling of fess (horizontal band in heraldry)

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French fesse, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *fissa (split, cleft), from Latin fissum, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidtós. Originally referred to the gluteal cleft. The verb fesser and its derivatives are etymologically unrelated and converged toward fesse in both form and sense through assimilation.

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Noun

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fesse f (plural fesses)

  1. buttock
    • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage:
      Quant à mon homme, l’œil collé au trou, une main sur mes fesses, l’autre à son vit qu’il agitait peu à peu, il semblait régler son extase sur celle qu’il surprenait.
      As for my man, eyes glued to my hole, one hand on my buttocks, the other on his dick which he stimulated little by little, he seemed to direct his ecstasy on the one he surprised
    • 1857, Charles Baudelaire, “L'imprévu”, in Les Fleurs du mal:
      Chacun de vous m’a fait un temple dans son cœur; / Vous avez, en secret, baisé ma fesse immonde!
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    • 2018, Pierre Guyotat, Ididotie:
      Plus bas, les fesses se recambrent dans un ronronnement, sous le haillon je vois qu’un short court aux plis rougis par le halo du bateau qui s’immobilise les moule, troué jusque le devant, dans l’évasement des cuisses, une braguette d’où pend un bouton [...]
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Derived terms

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Verb

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fesse

  1. inflection of fesser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfes.se/
  • Rhymes: -esse
  • Hyphenation: fés‧se

Participle

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fesse f pl

  1. feminine plural of fesso (split, having split)

Adjective

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fesse f

  1. feminine plural of fesso (ruptured, cracked; wounded)

Noun

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fesse

  1. plural of fessa (pussy; crack, chink)

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfes.se/
  • Rhymes: -esse
  • Hyphenation: fés‧se

Noun

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fesse

  1. plural of fessa (female twit, female idiot)

Adjective

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fesse f

  1. feminine plural of fesso (silly, idiotic)

Etymology 3

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Adjective

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fesse f

  1. feminine plural of fesso (tired)

Latin

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Adjective

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fesse

  1. vocative masculine singular of fessus

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *fissa, from Latin fissum.

Noun

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fesse f (plural fesses)

  1. buttock