churn vs fritter

churn

noun
  • A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter. 

  • A milk churn. 

  • The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers. 

  • Cyclic activity that achieves nothing. 

  • The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider. 

  • Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company. 

verb
  • To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion. 

  • To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake. 

  • To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits. 

  • To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream. 

  • To stop using a company's product or service. 

  • To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions. 

  • To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is. 

fritter

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

  • A fragment; a shred; a small piece. 

verb
  • To break into small pieces or fragments. 

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

  • 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. 

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