fritter

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈfrɪtə/, X-SAMPA: /"frIt@/
• (US) enPR: frĭtʹər, IPA: /ˈfrɪtɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"frIt@`/
• Rhymes: -ɪtə(r)

Noun

fritter (plural fritters)

1. A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
2. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
   • Hudibras

     And cut whole giants into fritters.

Derived terms

• apple fritter
• corn fritter
• French fritter
• fritter batter
• fritterware
• oyster fritter
• rice fritter
• spam fritter

Translations

dish made by deep-frying

• Dutch: beignet (nl) m
• French: beignet (fr) m
• Russian: пончик (ru) (pónčik) m (doughnut), оладья (ru) (oládʹja) f (thick pancake), (картофель) фри (ru) (fri) n (french fries), пирожок (ru) (pirožók) (a small pie, can also be deep-fried)

• Serbo-Croatian: krofna (sh) f, uštipak (sh) m

Verb

fritter (third-person singular simple present fritters, present participle frittering, simple past and past participle frittered)

1. (intransitive, often with about or around) 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.

   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.

2. (transitive) To sinter.
3. (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
4. (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
   • Alexander Pope

     Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.

Derived terms

• fritter away
• frittered
• fritterer
• frittering

Translations

waste time

• Dutch: prutsen (nl)

See also

• tempura

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French

Verb

fritter

1. (transitive) to fritter / sinter

Conjugation

   Conjugation of fritter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		fritter			avoir fritté
gerund		en frittant			en ayant fritté
present participle		frittant
past participle		fritté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	fritte	frittes	fritte	frittons	frittez	frittent
	imperfect	frittais	frittais	frittait	frittions	frittiez	frittaient
	past historic1	frittai	frittas	fritta	frittâmes	frittâtes	frittèrent
	future	fritterai	fritteras	frittera	fritterons	fritterez	fritteront
	conditional	fritterais	fritterais	fritterait	fritterions	fritteriez	fritteraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	fritte	frittes	fritte	frittions	frittiez	frittent
	imperfect1	frittasse	frittasses	frittât	frittassions	frittassiez	frittassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	fritte	—	frittons	frittez	—
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