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fress

/fɹɛs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English

Syllables
fress
IPA
/fɹɛs/
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

to eat without restraint; eat heartily

Obsolete

Etymology

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: fressen, פֿרעסן, vrëȥȥen, frëȥȥan, *fraetan, *fraetaną

Usage

Inflected Forms

fresses (present, singular) fressing (participle, present) fressed (participle, past) fressed (past)

Synonyms

pig out gluttonize gluttonise

Questions

How do you pronounce fress?
The recorded pronunciation is /fɹɛs/.
What does fress mean?
to eat without restraint; eat heartily
Where does fress come from?
It is traced to German.

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