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v. To reduce or squander little by little: frittered his inheritance away. See Synonyms at waste.

v. To break, tear, or cut into bits; shred.

n. A small cake made of batter, often containing fruit, vegetables, or fish, sautéed or deep-fried.

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

v. To occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.

v. To sinter.

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

v. To break into small pieces or fragments.

n. 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.

n. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

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

v. To break into small pieces or fragments.

n. A small cake of batter, sometimes containing a slice of some fruit, clams or oysters either chopped or whole, or the like, sweetened or seasoned, fried in boiling lard, and served hot: as, apple fritters; peach fritters; oyster fritters.

n. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

n. plural Specifically, in whale-fishery, tendinous fibers of the whale's blubber, running in various directions, and connecting the cellular substance which contains the oil.

To cut, as meat, into small pieces: also used figuratively.

To break into small pieces or fragments; wear away, as by friction; lose in small pieces or parts.

v. spend frivolously and unwisely

n. small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables

"Meanwhile, the labels fritter away their time and energy filing 26,000 lawsuits against their customers, and have financially ruined Jammie Thomas, an American-Indian single mother of two who the labels (the RIAA) sued and won a judgment of $220,000 for copyright infringement, which is effectively 10 times her annual after-tax salary."

frittered    frittering    fritters   

waste    ware    squander    consume   

to fritter away    tempura   

frittered    frittering    oyster fritter    spam fritter    corn fritter    French fritter    rice fritter    fritterware    apple fritter    fritter batter   

fragment    shred    break    waste    trifle   

Ritter    Sitter    aglitter    bitter    chitter    critter    embitter    emitter    fitter    gitter   

chowder    waffle    pancake    cutlet    custard    omelet    casserole    pudding    porridge    marmalade