different between throwout vs fritter

English

Etymology

From throw out, in the sense of having been thrown out of society.

Noun

throwout (plural throwouts)

1. (printing) A folded sheet that opens out to one side; half a gatefold.
2. (rare) One who has been rejected by society; an outcast.
   • 1963, Fred Majdalany, State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau (page 228)

     The first category were throwouts of the Police Reserve and the prisons organization who avenged themselves on these bodies that had rejected them by inventing and spreading accusations of malpractices.

Anagrams

• outthrow, outworth

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.

Derived terms

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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Translations

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).