fritter

Etymology
, from, from , from , from ; compare.

For the development of Middle English into, compare , , ,.

Noun

 * 1) A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
 * 2) A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

Translations

 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Küchle, im Teigmantel, Bratling
 * Interlingua: fritura
 * Irish: friochtóg
 * Korean:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: mea kōnatunatu
 * Middle English: fryture
 * Persian:
 * Russian:,  , (картофель)  ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Tagalog: maruya
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: mioden

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * I was supposed to do work, but I frittered around all afternoon.
 * He can’t figure out how to finish the paper he’s writing, so he’s resorted to frittering with the fonts.
 * It is quite possible to fritter one's life away in answer to the endless calls of others.
 * 1)  To sinter.
 * 2)  To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
 * 3)  To break into small pieces or fragments.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: prötteln, ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: malgastar energías


 * Finnish:
 * German: kleinschneiden,, ,
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,
 * Russian:


 * Irish:

Verb

 * 1)  to  / sinter