FRITTER

fritter

(noun) small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables

fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away

(verb) spend frivolously and unwisely; “Fritter away one’s inheritance”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

fritter (plural fritters)

A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.

A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

Verb

fritter (third-person singular simple present fritters, present participle frittering, simple past and past participle frittered)

(intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.

(transitive) To sinter.

(transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.

(transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.

Source: Wiktionary

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Frit"ter, n. Etym: [OR. fritour, friture, pancake, F. friture frying, a thing fried, from frire to fry. See Far, v. t.]

1. A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.

2. A fragment; a shred; a small piece. And cut whole giants into fritters. Hudibras. Corn fritter. See under Corn.

Frit"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frittered; p. pr. & vb. n. Frittering.]

1. To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.

2. To break into small pieces or fragments. Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense. Pope. To fritter away, to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time; also, to waste piecemeal; as, to fritter away time, strength, credit, etc.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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