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Jleagle
1477 days ago
Lots of the 2,500 don't seem very recognisable, possibly from another language?
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abyssin
1477 days ago
Fesses is from French, for instance.
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Jarmsy
1477 days ago
But common in informal English as a shortening of
confesses
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wiredfool
1477 days ago
I've only seen that as 'fess up'
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wizzwizz4
1477 days 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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