Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive, often)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.

    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.

    prötteln, sich verzetteln, frickeln

    дурью маятьсяdurʹju majatʹsja

  2. (transitive)To sinter.

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

    kleinschneiden, zerteilen, würfeln

    нарезатьnarezatʹ

  4. (transitive)To break into small pieces or fragments.

    zerkleinern, zerbrechen, zerteilen

    дробитьdrobitʹ

More definitions
  • spend frivolously and unwisely

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Tom brought me an apple fritter.

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  2. Save me an apple fritter.

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  3. Don't fritter your life away.

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  4. Don't fritter away your allowance.

    ruНе просади свою зарплату.

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  5. Cod fritters are delicious, but absorb lots of fat.

    Смажена тріска смачна, але абсорбує багато жиру.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
to waste time:
to cut meat into small pieces:
to break into small pieces:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to waste time:
to cut meat into small pieces:
to break into small pieces:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English fryture, from Middle French friture, from Old French friture

Inherited from Middle English fryture, from Middle French friture, from Old French friture, from Vulgar Latin *frīctūra, from Latin frīgō (“to fry”); compare fry.

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Forms

fritters, frittering, frittered, frittered
Base formfritter · to fritter
3rd person singularfritters
Present participlefrittering
Past simplefrittered
Past participlefrittered

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfritter
he, she, itfritters

Past simpleLesson

all personsfrittered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave frittered
he, she, ithas frittered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fritter

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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