Definition of "fessing" [fessing]

• Present participle of fess. (verb)

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• "The major difference between the two sets of cases has largely to do with whether the Administration believes that there is any political advantage in fessing up and then blaming the press."
• "I'd toyed with the idea of fessing up about dovegreyreader scribbles (which very few people I worked with knew about) and scrounging a free copy but thought better of it."
• "Rousseau is not more frank, and not half so worthy of credit, for Rousseau, like Topsy in the novel, had a taste for "'fessing" offences that he had never committed rather than not "'fess" at all."