Definitions for fritter

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fritter frit·ter

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IPA: /ˈfrɪt ər/

Fritter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in fritter (efirrtt).

Definitions for fritter

noun

1. a small piece, fragment, or shred.
2. a small cake of batter, sometimes containing corn, fruit, clams, or some other ingredient, fried in deep fat or sautéed.

verb (used with object)

1. to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away):
2. to break or tear into small pieces or shreds.

verb (used without object)

1. to dwindle, shrink, degenerate, etc. (often followed by away):
2. to separate or break into fragments:

Origin of fritter

1720-30; earlier fitter, derivative of fit (Old English fitt) a part

Examples for fritter

A variety of pancake or fritter made of eggs and other ingredients.

But Delancy had no time to fritter away on niceties of etiquette.

Your intelligence all in the abstract; only folly and fritter for your own affairs.

You may use life in its fullness, or you may fritter your gifts and be a drone.

You should have told me that you were intending to fritter and fool your afternoon away.

But there are always a few who fritter their time, and leave the same as they enter.

I want to keep it in my purse, and fritter it away just as I like.

Shilly-shally, to trifle or fritter away time; to be irresolute.

I'll smash that lute of yours to bits; you fritter away your working hours with it!

The curse of the ranchers is that they fritter away their strength.