A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
And cut whole giants into fritters.
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.
To sinter.
Inherited from Middle English fryture, from Middle French friture, from Old French friture, from Vulgar Latin *frīctūra, from Latin frīgō (“to fry”); compare fry. For the development of Middle English...
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To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.