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# fritter

noun (a fritter, fritters); verb (fritter away, fritters, frittered, frittering)

«fritter» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A fritter is a piece of fruit, vegetable or meat dipped in batter and fried, like an apple fritter or corn fritter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fritter/#m1)
2. To fritter away time or money is to waste it little by little on unimportant things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fritter/#m2)

### In the lessons

Food and cooking (UK chip shops sell spam and pineapple fritters; NZ whitebait fritters; Australian potato fritters called scallops in some states). Money lessons: frittering away pocket money. Phrases: fritter away, apple fritter, corn fritters.

### Examples

- We had sweetcorn fritters for lunch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fritter/#x1)
- The apple fritter was warm and sugary. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fritter/#x2)
- Don't fritter away your pocket money on sweets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fritter/#x3)
- He frittered away the whole afternoon on his phone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fritter/#x4)
- In New Zealand, whitebait fritters are a treat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fritter/#x5)
- She saved instead of frittering her money away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fritter/#x6)

### Note

Double t: frittered, frittering. «Fritter away» is always about wasting slowly. In a money problem, small amounts frittered away add up: 50p a day for 7 days = £3.50.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fritter» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fritter/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fritter» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fritter.html) on Mova free.