fress

== English == === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fɹɛs/ === Verb === fress (third-person singular simple present fresses, present participle fressing, simple past and past participle fressed) (obsolete outside dialects, e.g. Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) to eat without restraint; eat heartily Synonym: pig out === Further reading === Lewis Poteet (2004), “along the South Shore, especially in the Shelburne area[:] fress—eat”, in South Shore Phrase Book, iUniverse, →ISBN Bill Casselman (1995), Casselman's Canadian Words: A Comic Browse Through Words and Folk Sayings Invented by Canadians: “FRESS To eat like an animal is to fress, a verb common in the area around Lunenburg , Nova Scotia. German immigrants introduced this word, from the German fressen 'to devour, to be gluttonous.' Originally the verb was an intensive form […]” === Anagrams === serfs == German == === Verb === fress (colloquial) first-person singular present of fressen Synonym: (standard) fresse (colloquial) singular imperative of fressen Synonym: (standard) friss == Icelandic == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /frɛsː/ Rhymes: -ɛsː === Noun === fress n (genitive singular fress, nominative plural fress) orfress m (genitive singular fress, nominative plural fressar) tomcat ==== Declension ====