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Fess

//fɛs// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Proud; conceited. UK, dialectal

    "Y'll be fess enough, my poppet, when th'st know!""

  2. 2
    Lively; active; strong. UK, dialectal
  3. 3
    Of animals, bad-tempered, fierce. UK, dialectal
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.

    "Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral—Hum! Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable."

  2. 2
    Initialism of functional endoscopic sinus surgery. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. 3
    (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To confess; to admit.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of confess.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fesse, from Old French fesse, an alteration of faisse, from Latin fascia. Cognate with fajita, fascia, and fascism.

Etymology 3

From German Fess, a variant of Feese.

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