Usually means: Wasted or squandered little by little.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. frittered: Merriam-Webster
  2. frittered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. frittered: Vocabulary.com
  4. frittered: Wordnik
  5. frittered: Wiktionary
  6. Frittered, frittered: Dictionary.com
  7. Frittered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Frittered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. frittered: FreeDictionary.org
  10. frittered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frittered: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fritter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fritter)

noun:  A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
noun:  A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
verb:  (intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
verb:  (transitive) To sinter.
verb:  (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
verb:  (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
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