to waste something little by little, especially time or money. (Folksy.) • Don't stand around and fritter the whole day away. • Stop frittering away my hard-earned money!
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v., informal To waste foolishly. Paul failed history because he fooled away his time instead of studying.The man won a lot of money, but he soon frittered it away and was poor again.
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fritter away Squander or waste little by little; wear down gradually. For example, She frittered away her salary on odds and ends and saved nothing. This expression was first recorded in Alexander Pope's Dunciad (1728): “How prologues into prefaces decay, And these to notes are fritter'd quite away.”
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