fritter vs spend

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. 

spend

verb
  • To waste or wear away; to be consumed. 

  • To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. 

  • To exhaust, to wear out. 

  • To be diffused; to spread. 

  • To pay out (money). 

  • To consume, to use up (time). 

  • To break ground; to continue working. 

noun
  • Discharged semen. 

  • Expenditures; money or pocket money. 

  • Vaginal discharge. 

  • Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure. 

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