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fress

/fɹɛs/

fress verb: to eat without restraint; eat heartily.

Verb

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

  1. (dialectal, obsolete, Nova Scotia) to eat without restraint; eat heartily
    Synonyms:
    pig out

Synonyms of fress

Forms of fress

third-person singular presentfresses
present participlefressing
past participlefressed
pastfressed

Origin of fress

From German fressen (“to eat, devour, gobble”) and/or Yiddish פֿרעסן (fresn), both from Middle High German vrëȥȥen, from Old High German frëȥȥan (“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.

Questions about fress

What does fress mean?
Fress means to eat without restraint; eat heartily.
What part of speech is fress?
Fress is a verb.
How do you pronounce fress?
Fress is pronounced /fɹɛs/.
What is the past tense of fress?
The past tense of fress is fressed.

Words near fress in the dictionary

  1. Fresno County
  2. fresnoite
  3. fresolimumab
  4. Fresquez
  5. Fresquezes
  6. fress
  7. fressed
  8. fresser
  9. fressers
  10. fresses
  11. fressing

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