fress (third-person singular simple present fresses, present participle fressing, simple past and past participle fressed)
From Yiddish פרעסן (fresn) or German fressen (“to devour, gobble”), from Middle High German vrezzen, from Old High German frezzan (“to devour, eat up”), from Proto-Germanic *fraetanan (“to eat up”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- (intensive and perfective prefix) + Proto-Germanic *etanan (“to eat”), equivalent to for- + eat. Cognate with Old English fretan (“to devour”). More at fret.
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