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0 pointsJleagle4y ago0 comments

Lots of the 2,500 don't seem very recognisable, possibly from another language?

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abyssin4y ago· 3 in thread

Fesses is from French, for instance.

Jarmsy4y ago

But common in informal English as a shortening of confesses.

wiredfool4y ago

I've only seen that as 'fess up'

wizzwizz44y ago

In my head, it's a conjugation of "fess", which is a shortening of "confess". (Until I thought of it that way I was thinking "I've never seen this before", despite the word being in my vocabulary.)

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