FRITTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fritter mean? 

• FRITTER (noun)
  The noun FRITTER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FRITTER used as a noun is very rare.

• FRITTER (verb)
  The verb FRITTER has 1 sense:

1. spend frivolously and unwisely

  Familiarity information: FRITTER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRITTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("fritter" is a kind of...):

friedcake (small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fritter"):

apple fritter (fritter containing sliced apple)

corn fritter (fritter containing corn or corn kernels)

• FRITTER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fritter    ... he / she / it fritters   
Past simple: frittered   
Past participle: frittered   
-ing form: frittering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spend frivolously and unwisely

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

dissipate; fool; fool away; fritter; fritter away; frivol away; shoot

Context example:

Fritter away one's inheritance

Hypernyms (to "fritter" is one way to...):

consume; squander; ware; waste (spend extravagantly)

"Fritter" entails doing...:

consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out (use up (resources or materials))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

He was unaware of her gaze, and she watched him intently, speculating fancifully about the strange warp of soul that led him, a young man with signal powers, to fritter away his time on the writing of stories and poems foredoomed to mediocrity and failure.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)