create vs fritter

create

verb
  • To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative. 

  • To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:) 

  • In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character. 

  • To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute. 

  • To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion. 

  • To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc. 

  • To make a fuss, complain; to shout. 

  • To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used. 

fritter

verb
  • 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. 

  • To break into small pieces or fragments. 

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

  • To sinter. 

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

  • A fragment; a shred; a small piece. 

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