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fritters

noun

Meaning

  1. A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
  2. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
  3. (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.
  4. To sinter.
  5. To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
  6. To break into small pieces or fragments.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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