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fritter in Hindi हिन्दी
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fritter in English
- fritter⇄fritter (1), verb, noun.
- fritter⇄fritter (2), noun.
a small cake of batter, containing fruit, meat, or other food, fried in fat.
Ex. corn fritters. - fritter⇄noun a small piece; fragment.
- fritter⇄noun fritterer.
- fritter⇄v.i. to waste or squander resources little by little.
Ex. On the stocks, he'd frittered around ... while they sank to seven bucks on each of his eighty shares (James T. Farrell). - fritter⇄v.t. 1. to waste little by little.
Ex. to fritter away one's savings. He frittered away both time and energy reading worthless books. The allies ... frittered away precious time in ... disputes (H. G. Wells).
2. to cut or tear into small pie