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 ‘eet’ (eat) and animals ‘vreet’ (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 ‘animal’ word for eat to ask the person:
‘Wat vreet jy?’ (What are you pigging out on?),
meaning the person eats like an animal/ a pig.