This is interesting. I haven't heard of a slang term for snacking. I usually
say I'm gonna scarf something down. That's the only slang term I've heard of
for eating something.
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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 completely.More From
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