frittering

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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
present participle of fritter
frittering away
Present participle of fritter away
fritter
To occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination

He can’t figure out how to finish the paper he’s writing, so he’s resorted to frittering with the fonts.

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Fritters are round pieces of fruit, vegetables, or meat that are dipped in batter and fried. apple fritters. fritter away to waste time, money, or effort on something small or unimportant fritter something⇔away on. a thin piece of fruit, vegetable, or meat covered with a mixture of eggs and flour and cooked in hot fat apple/corn/banana etc fritter
fritter
To break into small pieces or fragments
fritter
A fragment; a shred; a small piece
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small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables
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A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter
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Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters
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To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying
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spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"
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A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan
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{i} fried piece of batter (often containing a filling of fruit or meat)
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{f} waste; be used up, be wasted; break into pieces
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small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance
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