fritter🔊

A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.

A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.

To sinter.

To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.

To break into small pieces or fragments.