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English

Etymology

fritter +? -er

Noun

fritterer (plural fritterers)

1. Someone who fritters.

English

Etymology

From Old French friture.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??t?/
• (US) enPR: fr?t??r, IPA^(key): /?f??t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Noun

fritter (plural fritters)

1. A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
2. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

   • And cut whole giants into fritters.

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Translations

Verb

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

1. (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.

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

   He can’t figure out how to finish the paper he’s writing, so he’s resorted to frittering with the fonts.

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

2. (transitive) To sinter.
3. (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
4. (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.

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See also

• tempura

French

Verb

fritter

1. (transitive) to fritter / sinter

Conjugation

Further reading

• “fritter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).