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Noun: fritter  fri-tu(r)
  1. Small quantity of fried batter containing fruit, meat or vegetables
    "The restaurant served corn fritters as an appetizer"
Verb: fritter  fri-tu(r)
  1. Spend frivolously and unwisely
    "Fritter away one's inheritance";
    - frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away

Derived forms: fritters, frittering, frittered

Type of: consume, friedcake [N. Amer], squander, ware [archaic], waste

Encyclopedia: Fritter