To cut, as meat, into small pieces: also used figuratively.

To break into small pieces or fragments; wear away, as by friction; lose in small pieces or parts.

noun. A small cake of batter, sometimes containing a slice of some fruit, clams or oysters either chopped or whole, or the like, sweetened or seasoned, fried in boiling lard, and served hot: as, apple fritters; peach fritters; oyster fritters.

noun. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

noun. plural Specifically, in whale-fishery, tendinous fibers of the whale's blubber, running in various directions, and connecting the cellular substance which contains the oil.

noun. 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.

noun. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

noun. See under Corn.

transitive verb. To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.

transitive verb. To break into small pieces or fragments.

transitive verb. to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time; also, to waste piecemeal

noun. A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.

verb. 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.

verb. To sinter.

verb. To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.

verb. To break into small pieces or fragments.

verb. spend frivolously and unwisely

noun. small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables

"Meanwhile, the labels fritter away their time and energy filing 26,000 lawsuits against their customers, and have financially ruined Jammie Thomas, an American-Indian single mother of two who the labels (the RIAA) sued and won a judgment of $220,000 for copyright infringement, which is effectively 10 times her annual after-tax salary."

tempura  to fritter away  

French fritter  apple fritter  corn fritter  fritter away  fritter batter  

consume  squander  ware  waste  

Ritter  Sitter  aglitter  bitter  chitter  

bagels  burgers  casserole  chowder  custard  

apple fritter  beignet  beignet aux pommes  bismarck  blow  

frittered  frittering  fritters