"act of taking food," Old English feding, verbal noun from feed (v.). Feeding frenzy is from 1989, metaphoric extension of a phrase that had been used of sharks since 1950s.
feebleness
feebly
feed
feedback
feeder
feeding
fee-faw-fum
feel
feeler
feeling
feelings
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