fritter

IPA: frˈɪtɝ

(intransitive, often with about, around, or away) 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.
(transitive) To sinter.
(transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
(transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.

Examples of "fritter" in Sentences

Anything with the word "fritter" in it is okay with me.
My favourite accompaniment to anything fritter is a hot tomato sauce.
The grimace on a friend's face as he bit into the fritter was the first sign all was not well.
There's a fried dough ball - a "fritter" - with a hollow core oozing with cream sauce studded with diced conch meat ( "
We liked the "fritter" idea -- the crusty crab puffs had a soft, crab-laced interior -- but found the chive sauce a bit too much about onion for our taste.
Fortunately, after I bought my venti coffee and apple fritter aka the Doom of Mankind, I rounded the corner to my office, and what did my wondering eyes behold?
Fruit fritters - fruit dipped in batter - particularly apple fritters, were also a popular food on this day, and the name fritter can also be applied to the pancake.
Meanwhile, the labels fritter away their time and energy filing 26,000 lawsuits against their customers, and have financially ruined Jammie Thomas, an American-Indian single mother of two who the labels (the RIAA) sued and won a judgment of $220,000 for copyright infringement, which is effectively 10 times her annual after-tax salary.