fritter vs snip

fritter

noun
  • A fragment; a shred; a small piece. 

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

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. 

snip

noun
  • A small amount of something; a pinch. 

  • A vasectomy. 

  • The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something. 

  • Something acquired for a low price; a bargain. 

  • A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool. 

  • A piece cut out by snipping. 

  • A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils. 

  • A small or weak person, especially a young one. 

  • An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors. 

verb
  • To break off; to snatch away. 

  • To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message. 

  • To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip. 

  • To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors. 

  • To circumcise. 

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