pamper, shower, deluge, expend, fritter, heap, pour, be generous, thrust upon, squander
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."
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.
Fritter comes from the Latin word "fractura." For any other similar questions you could refer to the Online Etymology Dictionary: http://www.etymonline.com or the Oxford English Dictionary, which is also online: http://www.oed.com
A crepe is flatter than a fritter.
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.
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There are approximately 245 calories in a safeway apple fritter.
There is no well-known public figure named Frank Fritter. It is possible that there may be a private individual with that name, but there is no widely recognized person by that name.
A fritter is any kind of food coated in batter and deep fried. The word comes from the Latin *frīctūra ("frying") by way of Old French and Middle English. It can refer to a dessert, a side dish or a main course food.
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