crisp vs fritter

crisp

noun
  • Anything baked or fried in thin slices and eaten as a snack. 

  • A very thin slice of potato that has been deep fried, typically packaged and sold as a snack. 

  • A baked dessert made with fruit and crumb topping 

adj
  • Sharp, clearly defined. 

  • Brief and to the point. 

  • having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one. 

  • Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture. 

  • Quick and accurate. 

  • Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false. 

  • Dry and cold. 

  • Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness. 

verb
  • To make crisp. 

  • To become crisp. 

  • To interweave (of the branches of trees). 

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 crisp and fritter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )