deep-fry vs fritter

deep-fry

verb
  • To cook (food) by deep-frying. 

  • To alter a photograph using filters to make it appear strangely colored for a humorous effect. 

noun
  • A heated cooking pan or appliance used to deep-fry foods. 

fritter

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

  • To break into small pieces or fragments. 

  • To sinter. 

  • 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. 

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

  • A fragment; a shred; a small piece. 

How often have the words deep-fry and fritter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )