英语词汇“fritter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

fritter1

/ˈfrɪtə

verb [with object]

1 (fritter something away) Waste time, money, or energy on trifling matters: I wish we hadn’t frittered the money away so easily...

The worry is that ministers will give the money to councils and it will be frittered away on councillors' pet projects.
Three shabbily dressed and under - nourished children lived in a Hampshire house of astonishing squalor as their parents frittered their money away on drink, a court heard.
Taxpayers should make sure that their money isn't frittered away on projects designed to pay back political supporters.

Synonyms

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

British informal, dated blue

vulgar slang piss away

2 archaic Divide (something) into small pieces: they become frittered into minute tatters

Origin

Early 18th century: based on obsolete fitter 'break into fragments, shred'; perhaps related to German Fetzen 'rag, scrap'.

fry from Middle English:
The word meaning ‘to cook in hot fat or oil’ comes from the Latin verb frigere, which meant both ‘to roast’ and ‘fry’. Fry as a term for ‘young fish’ is a quite different word, which comes from Old Norse. If you move from a bad situation to one that is worse you have moved out of the frying pan into the fire, an expression used by the scholar and statesman Sir Thomas More in the mid 16th century. Fritters (Late Middle English) are fried food and get their name from Late Latin frictura ‘a frying’. To fritter time or money (early 18th century) is a different word. It is based on an old verb fitter meaning ‘to break into fragments, shred’, and may be related to German Fetzen ‘rag, scrap’.

Rhymes

fritter2

/ˈfrɪtə

noun

A piece of fruit, vegetable, or meat that is coated in batter and deep-fried: banana fritters...

A light batter containing whisked egg whites is used to encase the prepared fruit, and the fritters are coated with caramel and sprinkled with sesame seeds after cooking.
And instead of the food she loves she'll be served with spam fritters, suet pudding and stewed prunes.
The tiny purple berries are used to make sparkling jams and the blossoms are deep-fried into fritters.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French friture, based on Latin frigere (see fry¹). Compare with frittata.

单词	fritter
释义	fritter1 /ˈfrɪtə / verb [with object] 1 (fritter something away) Waste time, money, or energy on trifling matters: I wish we hadn’t frittered the money away so easily... The worry is that ministers will give the money to councils and it will be frittered away on councillors' pet projects. Three shabbily dressed and under - nourished children lived in a Hampshire house of astonishing squalor as their parents frittered their money away on drink, a court heard. Taxpayers should make sure that their money isn't frittered away on projects designed to pay back political supporters. Synonyms 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 British informal, dated blue vulgar slang piss away 2 archaic Divide (something) into small pieces: they become frittered into minute tatters Origin Early 18th century: based on obsolete fitter 'break into fragments, shred'; perhaps related to German Fetzen 'rag, scrap'. fry from Middle English: The word meaning ‘to cook in hot fat or oil’ comes from the Latin verb frigere, which meant both ‘to roast’ and ‘fry’. Fry as a term for ‘young fish’ is a quite different word, which comes from Old Norse. If you move from a bad situation to one that is worse you have moved out of the frying pan into the fire, an expression used by the scholar and statesman Sir Thomas More in the mid 16th century. Fritters (Late Middle English) are fried food and get their name from Late Latin frictura ‘a frying’. To fritter time or money (early 18th century) is a different word. It is based on an old verb fitter meaning ‘to break into fragments, shred’, and may be related to German Fetzen ‘rag, scrap’. Rhymes bitter, committer, critter, embitter, emitter, fitter, flitter, glitter, gritter, hitter, jitter, knitter, litter, permitter, pitta, quitter, remitter, sitter, skitter, slitter, spitter, splitter, submitter, titter, transmitter, twitter, witter fritter2 /ˈfrɪtə / noun A piece of fruit, vegetable, or meat that is coated in batter and deep-fried: banana fritters... A light batter containing whisked egg whites is used to encase the prepared fruit, and the fritters are coated with caramel and sprinkled with sesame seeds after cooking. And instead of the food she loves she'll be served with spam fritters, suet pudding and stewed prunes. The tiny purple berries are used to make sparkling jams and the blossoms are deep-fried into fritters. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French friture, based on Latin frigere (see fry¹). Compare with frittata.
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