Fritter /(?)/

Frit·ter

Fritter

n.
  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.

Phrases & Compounds
Corn fritter
See under Corn.

Fritter

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.

Phrases & Compounds
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.