What's the difference between fretter and fritter?
Fretter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, frets.
Example Sentences:
(1) "L" aperta is a member of the Hydrobiidae (as broadly outlined by Fretter & Graham, 1962), subfamily Triculinae (as defined by Davis, 1968b).
Fritter
Definition:
(v. t.) A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.
(v. t.) A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
(v. t.) To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.
(v. t.) To break into small pieces or fragments.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an interview with the Qingdao Morning Post, one man lamented how in recent years his wife had frittered away 130,000 yuan (£13,500) of their hard-earned savings on Double Eleven purchases – thus dashing their dreams of buying a new home.
(2) Start with pasteis de bacalhau , Portugal’s legendary cod fritters.
(3) Three convenience products--frozen, precooked chicken apple fritters, chicken breast fillets, and chicken patties--provided by one processor were subjectively evaluated by two taste panels of older adults, ranging in age from the sixties to middle eighties.
(4) Just as at Newcastle United last month , points had been frittered away.
(5) When a lost boy meets a rusty child who teaches him to chomp iron bars, or a disgruntled crowd is distracted by beancurd fritters, Mo insists that everything lags behind the belly.
(6) There's a stall devoted to petits farcis (stuffed vegetables) and another selling fresh courgette fritters.
(7) Like many women, when I had my first child I frittered it away on nappies, food and school trips.
(8) Later, he would fritter away a large part of his fortune on never-realised projects such as a theme park dedicated to racial harmony.
(9) Their candidate, Mike Thornton, presented the authority with an "invoice for wasteful spending", claiming it had frittered away millions on advertising, office furniture and consultancy fees.
(10) Skivers, on the other hand, are lazy, unreliable and manipulative, choosing to live at others' expense so that they can sleep, watch television, abuse various substances and fritter away their time.
(11) The Tap Room restaurant next door serves robust Irish dishes such as rolled pork belly with Clonakilty black pudding fritters, champ, kale and Armagh cider jus.
(12) While the president stuffs his bank accounts and his spendthrift son fritters away a fortune on flash cars, more than half his people lack access to safe water, child survival rates are reportedly falling and numbers of children receiving primary education dropping.
(13) Instead of frittering away billions of dollars on $5 a week tax cuts for above average income earners, we should use that money for schools, hospitals and infrastructure.
(14) Noélia is a seriously good chef who serves updated Portuguese classics such as octopus fritters with coriander rice.
(15) Grey loves her way with courgettes (grated, to be made into fritters) and her gratin dauphinois.
(16) As is was already in the past, the society is nowadays again a place of scientific meeting and postgraduate medical training, whereby it has retained its traditional progressive and interdisciplinary character and will be understood as the uniting tie for the whole medicine which now tends to frittering.
(17) Science has demonstrated that each skylark needs to find the equivalent of 200 grains of wheat a day to survive cold weather, but here they were apparently frittering away their energy.
(18) He frittered away shots with successive three-putts on 10 and 11 before failing to take advantage, unlike Scott, on the two par fives that followed.
(19) 2 Heat a frying pan on a medium heat, pour a little oil into it and, when hot, spoon in small fritters.
(20) But they are just frittering it away on Flame Towers and Eurovision and the European Games.” If the Olympics and the World Cup are the top targets for ambitious rulers looking to make their mark, then beneath them sit cascading tiers of other sporting events that are increasingly sold either as an opportunity to put a country on the map or a stepping stone to landing one of the bigger fish.