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Fritter vs Puftaloon - What's the difference?

fritter | puftaloon |

As nouns the difference between fritter and puftaloon

is that fritter is a dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter while puftaloon is (australia) a fried scone-like fritter originally from australia.

As a verb 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.

fritter

English

(wikipedia fritter)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
  • A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
  • * Hudibras
    • And cut whole giants into fritters .

    Derived terms

    * apple fritter * corn fritter * French fritter * fritter batter * fritterware * oyster fritter * rice fritter * spam fritter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
    • 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.
  • To sinter.
  • To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
  • To break into small pieces or fragments.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.

    Derived terms

    * fritter away * frittered * fritterer * frittering

    See also

    * tempura ----

    puftaloon

    English

    (wikipedia puftaloon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia) A fried scone-like fritter originally from Australia.
  • * 1983 , , Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z , 2009, page 484,
    • It seems that puftaloons' are particular to Australia, where, traditionally, they are eaten hot with golden syrup or treacle. ' Puftaloons are a type of scone dough fried in plenty of hot dripping or a light vegetable oil.
  • * 2002 , Marion Houldsworth, Barefoot Through the Bindies: Growing Up in North Queensland in the Early 1900s , 2012, page 4,
    • And the puftaloons' that he would make! He?d mix up a batter and put them in the frying-pan. '''Puftaloons''' are just like scones, only they?re fried in the pan instead of baked in the oven, because we always had plenty of dripping. ' Puftaloons and syrup! We used to love them. That was a treat!
  • * 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push , page 423,
    • Returning to the kitchen she puts the kettle on for the hot water bottle, and takes some cold puftaloons from the icebox, placing them on the stove to warm for a few minutes while she writes a short note on a piece of quarto paper.