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fritter

noun

1 fritter

Small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables.

Roget 32: smallness etc. adj.; littleness etc. (small size) 193; tenuity; paucity; fewness etc. (small number) 103; meanness, ... show more

Dutch: beignet
Polish: smażenina

verb

1 fritter

Spend frivolously and unwisely:
— Fritter away one's inheritance.

synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter away, frivol away, shoot.

Dutch: verprutsen


Moby thesaurus: apple fritter, beignet, beignet aux pommes, bismarck, blow, cast away, consume, cruller, dissipate, doughnut, fastnacht, fool away, friedcake, fritter away, idle away, misspend, olykoek, raised doughnut, sinker, squander ... show more.

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