The word 'fritter' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a small, usually sweet, cake, typically made with a fruit or vegetable filling that is fried in batter. For example: "I had a delicious apple fritter for dessert last night."
Retailers like it because it makes us less conscious of what we are spending; the absence of a pin number means we are more likely to fritter away £20.
I adore San Francisco's hoary old-timers, preserved in some kind of delicious aspic – everything from vast, crisp apple fritter donuts from Bob's to equally vast, expertly mesquite-grilled steaks at the clubby Alfred's (leave their uninspired Italian food for the tourists and don't miss the justifiably legendary martinis).
As the education ministry begins its most ambitious reforms in more than half a century, there are understandable worries that Japan will fritter away its record of success.The reformers do not belittle these achievements.
Also Brazil did not fritter away all its reserves of foreign exchange defending the peg it still has $36 billion left, as well as the IMF's rescue package.But the real is far from finding a safe haven.
After a fritter of other affairs, Wallingford throws himself at Mrs Clausen and finds true love.The most that one can derive from this uncannily empty tale runs to isn't life weird?
But he warned it could backfire if politicians fritter away whatever time the central bank has bought.
Unfortunately, on the evidence so far, Mr Chavez looks rather more likely to fritter away than to seize this opportunity.
Venture capitalists are reluctant to fritter money away, so have become stingier.
She helped her husband deliver gas canisters on the outskirts of Shanghai but hid some of the proceeds lest he fritter them away on gambling and booze.
It also leaves schoolchildren so exhausted after matriculation that many who go on to university or some other place of study fritter away their time there.
After all, you might think, it is surely better for the government to return money that belongs to taxpayers rather than hoard it or, worse still, fritter it away on public spending.Not necessarily.
