Meaning of FRITTER
| Pronunciation: | | 'fritur
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- [n] small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables
- [v] spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"
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| | Synonyms: | | dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| | See Also: | | apple fritter, consume, corn fritter, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, friedcake, run through, squander, use up, ware, waste, wipe out | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Frit"ter\, n. [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.
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| | Related Terms: | | apple fritter, beignet, beignet aux pommes, bismarck, blow, cast away, consume, cruller, dissipate, doughnut, fastnacht, fool away, friedcake, fritter away, idle away, misspend, olykoek, raised doughnut, sinker, squander, throw away, twister, waste |
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