fritter

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The apple fritter was the bomb, and I'm not just talkin 'the belly kind.

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  1. transitive verb To reduce or squander little by little: frittered his inheritance away. See Synonyms at waste.
  2. transitive verb To break, tear, or cut into bits; shred.
  3. noun A small cake made of batter, often containing fruit, vegetables, or fish, sautéed or deep-fried.

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  • I bought an apple fritter and a cruller, but the apple fritter was gone almost before I got back into the car. —  DarklyDreamingDexter
  • One fritter, one cinnamon roll and one apple turnover more than covered a 10-inch plate. —  springfieldnewssun.com - News
  • The apple fritter was the bomb, and I'm not just talkin 'the belly kind. —  springfieldnewssun.com - News
  • The chickpea fritter is swaddled in eggy brioche, along with a rich buffer of ricotta and sundried-tomato relish. —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
  • The real charm is inflicting pain, and if that comes from making rich people fritter away fortunes on tax lawyers, that still does the trick. —  JSOnline.com
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  1. Probably from fritter, fragment, probably alteration of fitters, from fitter, to break into small pieces.
  2. Middle English friture, from Old French, from Late Latin frīctūra, from Latin frīctus, past participle of frīgere, to roast, fry.

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  1. from Middle English fritoure, frytowre, also fruyter, fruter (simulating fruit), from Old French friture, a frying, a dish of fried fish; cf. friteau, a fritter (Cotgrave), Middle Latin fritellum, a fritter, from Latin frictus, fried, past participle of frigere, fry: see fry.
  2. from fritter, n.
 

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