Fritter

Quick meaning: Fritter is a noun meaning A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
2. (transitive) To sinter.
3. (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
4. (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
5. (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.

Example Sentences

And cut whole giants into fritters.

Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.

I was supposed to do work, but I frittered around all afternoon.

It is quite possible to fritter one's life away in answer to the endless calls of others.

Word Forms

• fritters
• frittering
• frittered

Synonyms for fritter

Depending on context, synonyms include fool, dissipate, shoot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shoot, dissipate, fool, beignet, breading, tempura.

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