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näperrellä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fritter noun A piece of food, often fruit or vegetable, coated in batter and deep-fried.

Senses

näperrellä is used for these senses in English:

  • fritter (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.

fritter — full definition

  1. noun A piece of food, often fruit or vegetable, coated in batter and deep-fried.
  2. verb To waste time, money, or effort gradually on unimportant things.

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