fritter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɹɪtə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈfɹɪtɚ/|[ˈfɹɪɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
  2. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
    — And cut whole giants into fritters.
动词 v.
  1. 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. intransitive,often
    — I was supposed to do work, but I frittered around all afternoon.
  2. To sinter. transitive
  3. To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying. transitive
  4. To break into small pieces or fragments. transitive
    — Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.

词形变化

fritters plural fritters present,singular,third-person frittering participle,present frittered participle,past frittered past

词汇关系

衍生词
apple fritter corn fritter French fritter fritter batter fritterlike fritterware oyster fritter rice fritter spam fritter fritter away frittered fritterer frittering
相关词
tempura

词源

词源 1
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 /iu̯r(ə)/ into /ə(ɹ)/, compare armour, batter, border, solder.
词源 2
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 /iu̯r(ə)/ into /ə(ɹ)/, compare armour, batter, border, solder.
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