fesse

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See also: fessée, fessé, and fêsse

English

Noun

fesse (plural fesses)

  1. Alternative spelling of fess (horizontal band in heraldry)

French

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Particularly: "Non-Parisian e.g. Québécois, Senegalese, Acadian, etc"

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French fesse f, from Old French fesse f, from Vulgar Latin *fissa f (split, cleft), from Latin fissum n, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidtós.

Originally referred to the gluteal cleft. The verb fesser and its derivatives are etymologically unrelated and converged toward fesse in both form and sense through assimilation.

Noun

fesse f (plural fesses)

  1. buttock
    • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage:
      Quant à mon homme, l’œil collé au trou, une main sur mes fesses, l’autre à son vit qu’il agitait peu à peu, il semblait régler son extase sur celle qu’il surprenait.
      As for my man, eyes glued to my hole, one hand on my buttocks, the other on his dick which he stimulated little by little, he seemed to direct his ecstasy on the one he surprised
    • 1857, Charles Baudelaire, “L'imprévu”, in Les Fleurs du mal:
      Chacun de vous m’a fait un temple dans son cœur; / Vous avez, en secret, baisé ma fesse immonde!
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    • 2018, Pierre Guyotat, Ididotie:
      Plus bas, les fesses se recambrent dans un ronronnement, sous le haillon je vois qu’un short court aux plis rougis par le halo du bateau qui s’immobilise les moule, troué jusque le devant, dans l’évasement des cuisses, une braguette d’où pend un bouton [...]
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Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fesse

  1. inflection of fesser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Italian

Etymology 1

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfes.se/
  • Rhymes: -esse
  • Hyphenation: fés‧se

Participle

fesse f pl

  1. feminine plural of fesso (split, having split)

Adjective

fesse f

  1. feminine plural of fesso (ruptured, cracked; wounded)

Noun

fesse

  1. plural of fessa (pussy; crack, chink)

Etymology 2

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfes.se/
  • Rhymes: -esse
  • Hyphenation: fés‧se

Noun

fesse

  1. plural of fessa (female twit, female idiot)

Adjective

fesse f

  1. feminine plural of fesso (silly, idiotic)

Etymology 3

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Adjective

fesse f

  1. feminine plural of fesso (tired)

Latin

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Adjective

fesse

  1. vocative masculine singular of fessus

Middle French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French fesse f, from Vulgar Latin *fissa, from Latin fissum.

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Noun

fesse f (plural fesses)

  1. buttock
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Descendants

  • French: fesse f

References

Old French

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fissa f (first attested ca. 1200), from Latin fissum n.

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Noun

fesse oblique singularf (oblique plural fesses, nominative singular fesse, nominative plural fesses)

  1. buttock
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