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Feb. 19, 2017
fress\fres\verb
1. Slang. to eat or snack, especially often or in large quantities.
Quotes"If you're not eating that ..." "Fress, Heidi, fress, please. I
wasn't as hungry as I thought."
-- Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, 2013
Origin of fressFress comes from German fressen or Yiddish fressn to
devour, eat (of animals). German essen and Yiddish essn "to eat" and
fressen are exact parallels in form to Englisheat and fret "to worry."
Fret and fress- come from Germanic fra-etan to eat up, eat
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