noun
definition
A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
definition
A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
verb
definition
(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
He can’t figure out how to finish the paper he’s writing, so he’s resorted to frittering with the fonts.
definition
To sinter.
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To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
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To break into small pieces or fragments.
Examples of fritter in a Sentence
Just as bad was their cod fish fritter appetizer.
The shrunken hairy beige armadillo happily sniffed at the three-day old spam fritter.
Tempura, which is like a fritter, is a typical appetizer offering, but look for dumplings as well.
She opened her mouth wide so she could eat a hot apple fritter using only her front teeth.
I highly recommend you find a snack wagon and try their " Rosti ", a fried potato and onion fritter.
The tiny speckled ultramarine badger quickly devoured the moldy old spam fritter.
And let us not fritter away the truth by supposing this reconciliation to mean a change in the sinner's heart to God.
He was also very judicious in the way in which he expended the limited money at his command; he did not fritter it away in an attempt to make the whole of a building remarkable, but devoted it chiefly to one part or feature, such as a spire or a rich scheme of internal decoration.