fritter

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

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

Verb

1. (intransitive, often) 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.
2. (transitive) To sinter.
3. (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
4. (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.

Conceptos

dilapidar

buñuelo

prodigar

churro

disipar

frito

fruta de sartén

beignet

derrochar

malgastar energías

malgastar

Sinónimos

pancake

shoot

fool

fool away

dissipate

fritter away

frivol away

waste

donut

eradicate

erase

extinguish

griddlecake

kill

🔪🩸👤

knock out

muffin

obliterate

parcel out

piece

rase

ravage

sack

scone

shatter

slattern

sliver

spoil

squander

waffle

🧇

wear out

wipe out

zap

⚡

break into pieces

sweet pancake

beignet

biscuit

slap jack

black out

carve

crumble

crumpet

cut up

destruct

devastate

Traducciones

beignet

verzetteln

θρυμματίζω

frittella

beignet

parça

frittata

فتف

فتت

بذّر

Beignet

τηγανίτα

malgastar

bunyol

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈfɹɪtə(ɹ)/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: fryture

In summary

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.