Fritter vs Swattle - What's the difference?
fritter | swattle |
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
(British) (northern dialect ) To splutter; to guzzle
(British) To fritter away
As verbs the difference between fritter and swattle
is that 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 while swattle is (northern dialect) To splutter; to guzzle.As a noun fritter
is a dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.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.