Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of ess., the name of the letter S.
Examples
“You know I laked dem matt'esses 'cause when de chinches got too bad you could shake out dat straw and burn it, den scald de tick and fill it wid fresh straw, and rest in peace again.”
“Or rather, I should say: And then, the cosmos of the Gallis - the mythological gender variant priest/esses of the Roman goddess Cybelle - opened up to swallow us whole in a single gulp.”
“Tommy looked at Doug, hissed, “yessssssssss…sssssss..sssssss?” dragging out the esses endlessly so that he never stopped making a noise.”
“Eu que não sou académico coisíssima nenhuma, as vezes me junto a esses debates umas vezes para fazer um “check up”, quantificar a minha ignorância e outras vezes para ver o tanto de “assumptions” que os verdadeiros académicos trazem nas suas maletas.”
Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias
“Não tenho fibra para discutir esses conceito “chatos”.”
Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias
“É só verem a historia das trocas de telefonemas para apanharem e trazerem a luz esses marmanchos que vão bater o peito na missa todos os domingos e comungam e ca fora no dia a dia abusam das menores.”
Global Voices in English » East Timor: Thoughts on Abortion A Few Days Before Law Approval
“Todos esses municípios enfrentam problemas de seca desde o final do ano passado, mas a situação se agravou e as atividades agropecuárias estão bem prejudicadas, segundo informou a Defesa Civil.”
Global Voices in English » Brazil: When climate change meets cyber-activism
“Mas hoje, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva ouviu, sem dúvida, a frase mais gratificante de sua carreira, que simplesmente quebrou as pernas de todos esses pseudo-argumentos para criticar sua carreira política.”
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Does the country play a new role in the world?
“É impressionante como as pessoas expressam as suas imaginações, os seus desejos, até certo ponto as suas demagogias, explicitamente, sem se importar se esses seus anseios são verdadeiramente os anseios de uma população, são os anseios porque primam uma sociedade na busca da sua melhoria de vida.”
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Students arrested for demonstrating in the Senate
“Tem gente que tá pensando em ficar lá e matar esses caras.”
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Bolivia expels Brazilian citizens
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘esses’.
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Reesetee reset
Words formed from the letters in "reesetee". (See comments about "teetee" on Still more bird wirds; also see comments at retree.)
settee, retree, stresses, erse, resee, serest, tsetse, tresses, tester, street, reset, rest and 32 more...
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chained_bear Plural of the letter S.
"...although the chapel was not large it was built of white marble ornamented with gilt brass esses, and it made a striking contrast with the rest of the town, mostly thatched, homely, vague in outline."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 214 Mar 7, 2008