Squawker vs Fritter - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between squawker and fritter

is that squawker is someone or something who/that squawks while fritter is a dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.

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.

(en noun)

someone or something who/that squawks

a person who complains or protests noisily

a loudspeaker used for frequencies intermediate between those of a woofer and a tweeter

(wikipedia fritter)

(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 .

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

(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.

* fritter away * frittered * fritterer * frittering