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Grammar : Verb
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Phonetic Transcription : ˈfrɪt ər

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Définition of fritter

Origin :
  • "whittle away," 1728, from fritters "fragment or shred," possibly from a noun sense, but this is not recorded as early as the verb; perhaps an alteration of 16c. fitters "fragments or pieces," perhaps ultimately from Old French fraiture "a breaking," from Latin fractura. Or perhaps from a Germanic source (cf. Middle High German vetze "clothes, rags").
  • verb waste away
Example sentences :
  • But Delancy had no time to fritter away on niceties of etiquette.
  • Extract from : « Making People Happy » by Thompson Buchanan
  • But there are always a few who fritter their time, and leave the same as they enter.
  • Extract from : « Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall » by Jean K. Baird
  • The curse of the ranchers is that they fritter away their strength.
  • Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris
  • I want to keep it in my purse, and fritter it away just as I like.
  • Extract from : « Betty Trevor » by Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
  • Your intelligence all in the abstract; only folly and fritter for your own affairs.
  • Extract from : « The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig » by David Graham Phillips
  • Shilly-shally, to trifle or fritter away time; to be irresolute.
  • Extract from : « The Slang Dictionary » by John Camden Hotten
  • A variety of pancake or fritter made of eggs and other ingredients.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley
  • You may use life in its fullness, or you may fritter your gifts and be a drone.
  • Extract from : « The Girls of St. Wode's » by L. T. Meade
  • I'll smash that lute of yours to bits; you fritter away your working hours with it!
  • Extract from : « Such is Life » by Frank Wedekind
  • You should have told me that you were intending to fritter and fool your afternoon away.
  • Extract from : « Christine » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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