单词 | 'fess |
释义 | ▪ I. † fess, n. Obs.
1716Lond. Gaz. No. 5439/4 A black Mare..With a Fess Tail, lately dock'd. ▪ II. fess, 'fess, v. orig. U.S. Aphetic for confess v. Freq. with up.
1840Knickerbocker XVI. 112 It would be a sad thing to die here all alone in the woods with a lie in your mouth; so 'fess clean. 1868L. M. Alcott Little Women (1871) ix. 114, I shall tell them myself, all about it, and ‘'fess’ to mother how silly I've been. 1876C. M. Yonge Three Brides ii. 26 ‘Come 'fess, Julius,’ said she... ‘'Fess and make it up.’ 1930Randolph (W. Va.) Enterprise 20 Nov. 1/1 The joke is on him and he may as well ‘Fess up’ to it. 1941R. A. Heinlein Menace from Earth (1966) 75 If I had told you that you were going back to meet yourself face to face, would you have believed me? Come now, 'fess up. 1947N. Marsh Final Curtain xiv. 214 I've come to ‘fess up’, like a good boy. |

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