fritter

Meanings

Noun

• A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
• A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

Verb

• 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.
• To sinter.
• To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
• To break into small pieces or fragments.

Origin

• From Old French friture.