Fritter vs. Fry — What's the Difference?

A fritter is a portion of meat, seafood, fruit, vegetables or other ingredients which have been battered or breaded, or just a portion of dough without further ingredients, that is deep-fried. Fritters are prepared in both sweet and savory varieties.

To cook over direct heat in hot oil or fat.

To reduce or squander little by little

(Slang) To destroy (electronic circuitry) with excessive heat or current

To break, tear, or cut into bits; shred.

To be cooked in a pan over direct heat in hot oil or fat.

A small cake made of batter, often containing fruit, vegetables, or fish, sautéed or deep-fried.

(Slang) To undergo execution in an electric chair.

A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.

A french fry

# A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

A dish of a fried food.

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.

A social gathering at which food is fried and eaten

(transitive) To sinter.

A recently hatched fish.

(transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.

A young salmon living in fresh water that is older than an alevin and younger than a parr or smolt.

(transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.

A young animal of certain other groups, such as frogs.

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.

Pl. fry or fries An individual, especially a young or insignificant person

A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

A method of cooking food.

To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.

(transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.

To break into small pieces or fragments.

(intransitive) To cook in hot fat.

Small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables

(obsolete) to simmer; to boil

Spend frivolously and unwisely;

To be affected by extreme heat or current.

To suffer because of too much heat.

To be executed by the electric chair. Category:en:Capital punishment

To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.

A fried piece of cut potato.

A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.

The liver of a lamb.

A lamb or calf testicle.

A state of excitement.

Young fish; fishlings.

Offspring; progeny; children; brood.

(archaic) A swarm, especially of something small.

The spawn of frogs.

A kind of sieve.

A drain.

To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.

To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.

To simmer; to boil.

To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.

To be agitated; to be greatly moved.

A dish of anything fried.

A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry.

The young of any fish.

A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.

English painter and art critic (1866-1934)

English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)

A young person of either sex;

Be excessively hot;

Cook on a hot surface using fat;

Kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair;