fressとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /fɹɛs/

動詞

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

1. (obsolete outside dialects, e.g. Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) to eat without restraint; eat heartily

   Synonym: pig out

Further reading

• Lewis Poteet (2004) “along the South Shore, especially in the Shelburne area[:] fress—eat”, in South Shore Phrase Book, iUniverse, →ISBN
• Bill Casselman (1995) Casselman's Canadian Words: A Comic Browse Through Words and Folk Sayings Invented by Canadians: “FRESS To eat like an animal is to fress, a verb common in the area around Lunenburg , Nova Scotia. German immigrants introduced this word, from the German fressen 'to devour, to be gluttonous.' Originally the verb was an intensive form  […]”
• 2012, H.L. Mencken, American Language Supplement 2, Knopf, →ISBN:

  The dialect of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, which was settled by Germans in the Eighteenth Century, has been studied […] apple-snits (Ger. schnitte); lapish, insipid (Ger. láppisch); klotsy, heavy or soggy (Ger. klotzig); to fress, to eat greedily; […] shimmel, a very blond person (Ger. schimmel, a white mould), and Fassnakday, Shroove Tuesday (Ger. Fastnacht).

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