Fress

//fɹɛs// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    to eat without restraint; eat heartily dialectal, obsolete
  2. 2
    eat a lot and without restraint wordnet

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Etymology

From German fressen (“to eat, devour, gobble”) and/or Yiddish פֿרעסן (fresn), both from Middle High German vrezzen, from Old High German frezzan (“to eat up”), from Proto-West Germanic *fraetan, from Proto-Germanic *fraetaną (“to eat up”), from *fra- (intensive and perfective prefix) + *etaną (“to eat”), equivalent to for- + eat. Cognate with Old English fretan (“to devour”). Doublet of fret.

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