different between tress vs fress

English

Etymology

From Middle English tresse, from Old French tresce, of uncertain origin; possibly from Vulgar Latin *trichia, from Ancient Greek ?????? (trikhía, “rope”), from ???? (thríx, “hair”). Compare French tresse, Italian treccia.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?s, IPA^(key): /t??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

tress (plural tresses)

1. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
2. A long lock of hair
3. (by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers.

Derived terms

• mermaid's tresses
• tressful
• tressy

Translations

Verb

tress (third-person singular simple present tresses, present participle tressing, simple past and past participle tressed)

1. To braid or knot hair.

Anagrams

• RTSes, SERTs, TRSes, rests

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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