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English
Noun
fesse (plural fesses)
- Alternative spelling of fess (“horizontal band in heraldry”)
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French fesse, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *fissa (“split, cleft”), from Latin fissum, 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.
Pronunciation
Noun
fesse f (plural fesses)
- 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!- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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 [...]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Verb
fesse
- inflection of fesser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
Italian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Participle
fesse f pl
- feminine plural of fesso (“split, having split”)
Adjective
fesse f
- feminine plural of fesso (“ruptured, cracked; wounded”)
Noun
fesse
- plural of fessa (“pussy; crack, chink”)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
fesse
- plural of fessa (“female twit, female idiot”)
Adjective
fesse f
- feminine plural of fesso (“silly, idiotic”)
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Adjective
fesse f
- feminine plural of fesso (“tired”)
Latin
Adjective
fesse
- vocative masculine singular of fessus
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *fissa, from Latin fissum.
Noun
fesse f (plural fesses)
- buttock