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Definition of Fritterer
1. one that fritters [n -S] - See also: fritters
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fritterer
Literary usage of Fritterer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1896)
"486. This court will presume that sufficient evidence was introduced to support
the finding of the trial court. Stale v. fritterer, 65 Mo. 422. ..."
2. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
"96 " fritterer away of his works." He was also an engraver on gold, and a painter.
He is spoken of in high terms by Vitruvius, Pausanias, and Dionysius of ..."
3. The Thames and its tributaries; or, Rambles among the rivers by Charles Mackay (1840)
"... but seemingly false dames, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, aided by that "
Welsh devil," and " fritterer of English" Sir Hugh Evans, Mrs. Quickly, ..."
4. Seven Years' Hard by Richard William Free (1905)
"Let the indolent fritterer of time and money ponder this statement. The brightest
parts of life, those things which in ..."
5. The Christian Treasury (1847)
"Believing that a mother's proper sphere of action is the family circle, she was
ever a " taper at home;" no fritterer away of precious time in formal ..."
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