different between frees vs fress

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?i?z/
• Homophones: freeze, frieze

Verb

frees

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of free

Noun

frees

1. plural of free

Anagrams

• Frese, feres, reefs

Luxembourgish

Verb

frees

1. second-person singular present indicative of froen

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse fræs f (“whizzing, hissing”). Compare frasa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [frè?s] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -è?s

Verb

frees (preterite frest)

1. fizzle, simmer

   Hä fres ti gryta

   The pot boils up

2. whiz and roar; of rapids
3. express dissatisfaction, harshly address, be wroth

   Han frest dill’om

   He hissed at him

Related terms

• fres

English

Etymology

From Yiddish ??????? (fresn) or German fressen (“to devour, gobble”), from Middle High German vrezzen, from Old High German frezzan (“to devour, eat up”), from Proto-Germanic *fraetan? (“to eat up”), from *fra- (intensive and perfective prefix) + *etan? (“to eat”), equivalent to for- +? eat. Cognate with Old English fretan (“to devour”). Doublet of fret.

In German, fressen (eat) and saufen (drink) are used about non-humans, whereas the corresponding words used about human behavior are essen and trinken. "Es trinkt der Mann, es säuft das Pferd / bei manchem ist es umgekehrt" ("the man drinks, the horse gulps it down / [but] with many it's the other way 'round") is a common humorous couplet in German with many variations (e.g., ...in Bayern ist es...)

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) to eat without restraint; eat heartily

   Synonym: pig out

Anagrams

• serfs

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fr?s?/

  Rhymes: -?s?

Noun

fress n (genitive singular fress, nominative plural fress) or fress m (genitive singular fress, nominative plural fressar)

1. tomcat

Declension

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