fress

fress (third-person singular simple present fresses, present participle fressing, simple past and past participle fressed)

1. To eat without restraint; eat heartily.

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.