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by Jarmsy 1477 days ago
But common in informal English as a shortening of confesses.
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I've only seen that as 'fess up'
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.)