noun
fritter
A small fried cake containing pieces of food.
The corn fritter was crisp outside and soft within.
Etymology
The ancestor names something fried. The English food name retains that method of cooking for a small cake of batter or other mixture containing pieces of food.
More examples
- She served a warm apple fritter.
- The cook dropped spoonfuls of batter to make fritters.
- A vegetable fritter accompanied the soup.
Forms
fritter · fritters
Similar words
- pancake
- A pancake is cooked as a flat batter cake; a fritter is generally fried with pieces of another food in it.
- croquette
- A croquette is a shaped, often breaded fried mixture; a fritter commonly uses batter around pieces of food.