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fretten.

to eat

7 characters2 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈfrɛtə(n)/
  1. to eat

    informal · transitive
Where this word comes from

Variant of vreten (“to eat”), possibly from cognate West Frisian frette or influenced by other cognate forms (compare German fressen, Westphalian Low German friätten, northern Low German frett, third-person singular of freten).

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