| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To fragment.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb fritter.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fritter) | 1. Spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance".[Wordnet]. 2. To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.[Websters]. 3. To break into small pieces or fragments.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: frittering, frittered, fritters, fritterer, fritterers, fritteringly and fritteredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FRITTERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
Specialty Definition: fritter
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A small pancake; also, a small piece of meat fried.. | 2: [Noun] A fragment; a shred; a small piece. And cut whole giants into fritters.. | 3: [Verb] To cut meat into small pieces to be fried.. | 4: [Verb] To break into small pieces or fragments. Break all their nerves, and fritter all their sense. To fritter away, is to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wikipedic | The word fritter comes from the Latin frictura ("fried") by way of Old French and Middle English. It is used to refer to a number of fried foods. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter. (references) | 2: [Verb] (intransitive) (often with about or around) 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. 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. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: fritter
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Apple fritter | Fritter containing sliced apple. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Corn fritter | Fritter containing corn or corn kernels. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| French fritter | A deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Fritter away | Spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance". Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Fritter batter | Batter for making fritters. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: fritter | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Fritter | 4 | Fritter | 4 | |
| Spam fritter | 4 | Fritter roll | 2 | |
| Fritter roll | 2 | Spam fritter | 4 | |
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