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fress

fress

English

Verb

fress ‎(third-person singular simple present fresses, present participle fressing, simple past and past participle fressed)

  1. (obsolete) To eat without restraint; eat heartily.

Synonyms

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /frɛsː/
    Rhymes: -ɛsː

Noun

fress n ‎(genitive singular fress, nominative plural fress) or fress m ‎(genitive singular fress, nominative plural fressar)

  1. tomcat

Declension

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Etymology

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

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