English-Thai Dictionary

fritter

N เศษ เล็กน้อย 

 

fritter away

PHRV เสีย (เงิน หรือ เวลา  idle away sia

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRITTER

n.[L. frictus, fried. ] 1. A small pancake; also, a small piece of meat fried.
2. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
And cut whole giants into fritters.

 

FRITTER

v.t. 1. To cut meat into small pieces to be fried.
2. To break into small pieces or fragments.
Break all their nerves, and fritter all their sense.
To fritter away, is to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FRITTER

Frit "ter, n. Etym: [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.

 

2. A fragment; a shred; a small piece. And cut whole giants into fritters. Hudibras. Corn fritter. See under Corn.

 

FRITTER

Frit "ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frittered; p. pr. & vb. n. Frittering.]

 

1. To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.

 

2. To break into small pieces or fragments. Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense. Pope. 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fritter

frit ter 1 |ˈfritər ˈfrɪdər | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 (fritter something away ) waste time, money, or energy on trifling matters: I wish we hadn't frittered the money away so easily. • [ no obj. ] dwindle; diminish: the day fritters. 2 archaic divide (something ) into small pieces: they become frittered into minute tatters. DERIVATIVES frit ter er noun ORIGIN early 18th cent.: based on obsolete fitter ‘break into fragments, shred ’; perhaps related to German Fetzen ‘rag, scrap. ’

 

fritter

frit ter 2 |ˈfrɪdər ˈfritər | ▶noun a piece of fruit, vegetable, or meat that is coated in batter and deep-fried. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French friture, based on Latin frigere (see fry 1 ). Compare with frittata .

 

Oxford Dictionary

fritter

fritter 1 |ˈfrɪtə | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 (fritter something away ) waste time, money, or energy on trifling matters: I wish we hadn't frittered the money away so easily. 2 archaic divide (something ) into small pieces. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: based on obsolete fitter ‘break into fragments, shred ’; perhaps related to German Fetzen ‘rag, scrap ’.

 

fritter

fritter 2 |ˈfrɪtə | ▶noun a piece of fruit, vegetable, or meat that is coated in batter and deep-fried. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French friture, based on Latin frigere (see fry 1 ). Compare with frittata .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fritter

fritter verb he frittered away his inheritance: squander, waste, misuse, misspend, dissipate; overspend, spend like water, be prodigal with, run through, get through; informal blow, splurge, pour /throw down the drain. ANTONYMS save.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fritter

fritter verb he frittered away the money his father left him: squander, waste, misuse, misspend, spend unwisely, throw away, dissipate, make poor use of; overspend, spend like water, throw around like confetti, be prodigal with, be wastefully extravagant with, run through, get through, lose, let money slip through one's fingers; informal blow, splurge, pour /chuck something down the drain, spend money as if it grew on trees, spend money as if there were no tomorrow, spend money as if it were going out of style; Brit. informal, dated blue; vulgar slang piss away. ANTONYMS save; spend wisely.

 

Duden Dictionary

Fritter

Frit ter Substantiv, maskulin , der |Fr i tter |der Fritter; Genitiv: des Fritters, Plural: die Fritter lateinisch-französisch -englisch Kohärer

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fritter

frit ter 1 /frɪ́tə r /動詞 他動詞 【つまらないことに 】〈時間 精力 金銭など 〉を少しずつ浪費する, ちびちび使う (away ) «on » .

 

fritter

frit ter 2 名詞 C フリッター 〘果物 野菜 肉などを小麦粉 牛乳 卵で衣を付けて揚げたもの 〙.