fritter vs putter

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. 

putter

verb
  • To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks. 

  • To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating. 

noun
  • A person who is taking a putt or putting. 

  • A shot-putter. 

  • One who puts or places. 

  • A golf club specifically intended for a putt. 

  • One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine. 

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