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fritter 音标拼音: [fr'ɪtɚ] vt. 浪费,细切,剁碎
n. 细片,屑 浪费,细切,剁碎细片,屑 fritter n 1: small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables v 1: spend frivolously and unwisely; " Fritter away one' s inheritance" [ synonym: { fritter}, { frivol away}, { dissipate}, { shoot}, { fritter away}, { fool}, { fool away}] Fritter \ Frit" ter\, n. [ OR. fritour, friture, pancake, F. friture frying, a thing fried, from frire to fry. See { Far}, v. t.] 1. A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A fragment; a shred; a small piece. [ 1913 Webster] And cut whole giants into fritters. -- Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster] { Corn fritter}. See under { Corn}. [ 1913 Webster]
Fritter \ Frit" ter\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Frittered}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Frittering}.] 1. To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To break into small pieces or fragments. [ 1913 Webster] Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] { To fritter away}, to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time; also, to waste piecemeal; as, to fritter away time, strength, credit, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 23 Moby Thesaurus words for " fritter": apple fritter, beignet, beignet aux pommes, bismarck, blow, cast away, consume, cruller, dissipate, doughnut, fastnacht, fool away, friedcake, fritter away, idle away, misspend, olykoek, raised doughnut, sinker, squander, throw away, twister, waste
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