Fried vs Fritter - What's the difference?
fried | fritter |
(fry)
Cooked by frying.
(specifically, of an egg) Being fried with the yolk unbroken.
(colloquial, of computer equipment) Broken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge.
(slang) stoned; under the influence of drugs
A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
* Hudibras
To occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
To sinter.
To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
To break into small pieces or fragments.
* Alexander Pope
As verbs the difference between fried and fritter
is that fried is past tense of fry while fritter is to occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.As an adjective fried
is cooked by frying.As a noun fritter is
a dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.fried
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- He always ate his eggs fried , never scrambled.
- It looks like your motherboard is fried .
- ''Man, I got totally fried on weed at Chad's party.'
Anagrams
*fritter
English
(wikipedia fritter)Noun
(en noun)- And cut whole giants into fritters .
Derived terms
* apple fritter * corn fritter * French fritter * fritter batter * fritterware * oyster fritter * rice fritter * spam fritterVerb
(en verb)- I was supposed to do work, but I frittered around all afternoon.
- He can’t figure out how to finish the paper he’s writing, so he’s resorted to frittering with the fonts.
- Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.