Definitions for fess

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Spelling: [fes]
IPA: /fɛs/

Fess is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in fess (efss).

Definitions for fess

noun

  1. an ordinary in the form of a broad horizontal band across the middle of an escutcheon.
  2. a teacher.

Verb phrases

  1. fess up, Informal. to admit or concede, especially freely.

Origin of fess

1350-1400; Middle English fesse Anglo-French ≪ Latin fascia fascia

Examples for fess

This makes the third date a natural moment to fess up about any contagious diseases.

I done 'fess, and I done 'fess butler, only he prick my hands werry sore.

So I said, "'fess up, Jimmy, and then you'll be able to enjoy your call."

Yele Haiti did fess up to paying you $100,000 for a benefit concert in Monaco.

After initial denials, Quayle was eventually forced to fess up to composing the salacious posts.

You know every man, woman, and child by name and nature—now 'fess!

In the base point on an escutcheon gu., a fess embattled arg.

The “fess up” cliché assumes that the media climate has not changed since the 1990s.

In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron asks British blokes to fess up about their fantasies—for the good of the children.

An' fess a loaf o' white breid; we canna bide for the parritch.'

Word Value for fess
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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