fritter
verb🔊/ˈfrɪtə(r)/
🔊/ˈfrɪtər/
Word Originverb early 18th cent.: based on obsolete fitter ‘break into fragments, shred’; perhaps related to German Fetzen ‘rag, scrap’.
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they fritter | 🔊/ˈfrɪtə(r)/ 🔊/ˈfrɪtər/ |
| he / she / it fritters | 🔊/ˈfrɪtəz/ 🔊/ˈfrɪtərz/ |
| past simple frittered | 🔊/ˈfrɪtəd/ 🔊/ˈfrɪtərd/ |
| past participle frittered | 🔊/ˈfrɪtəd/ 🔊/ˈfrɪtərd/ |
| -ing form frittering | 🔊/ˈfrɪtərɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈfrɪtərɪŋ/ |