Tuesday/ lost in translation ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

ASTER = aster, the flower
TROEF = to trump
VREET = to eat (used for animals), or to eat like an animal

How strange, I thought this morning, after completing my Afrikaans Wordle, that there really is no English word for VREET. 

In Afrikaans, humans โ€˜eetโ€™ (eat) and animals โ€˜vreetโ€™ (eat).
Example:
Ek eet die appel. (I eat the apple).
Die vark vreet die appel. (The pig eats the apple).

If someone eats voraciously or sloppily, you might use the โ€˜animalโ€™ word for eat to ask the person:
โ€˜Wat vreet jy?โ€™ (What are you pigging out on?),
meaning the person eats like an animal/ a pig.

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