We used to call them "hush puppies."
To do things corresponding to another, such as monkey sees monkey does. A fritter is something which is deep-fried. To fritter away is to dissipate, to lose things in small and trivial increments. "She won the lottery and frittered all the money away on booze."
James
An apple fritter is a type of fritter made with pieces of apple deep-fried in batter and served covered with powdered sugar, honey or cinnamon.
I am pretty sure that in Italy they call it frittilli (I don't think that's the correct spelling). ;)
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Patrick
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My mom said the state fair had the best apple fritters to eat. (In this case, fritter is a food) My mom said I should not fritter my time away, by reading comic books all day. (In this case, fritter means "to slowly lose or waste") I ate a fritter before going to school. (In this case, fritter is a food) His sanity frittered away while he has working in the mines. (In this case, fritter means "slowly disappeared") In the UK, you can say "into a fritter" which means to do something so much, using lots of energy, that now the energy is all gone and so it is nothing other than a burnt item. "He worked himself into a fritter for that job promotion" "She worried herself into a fritter that she fainted when she heard the results" This though my be old-fashioned English.
pamper, shower, deluge, expend, fritter, heap, pour, be generous, thrust upon, squander
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There are approximately 245 calories in a safeway apple fritter.