waffle

IPA: wˈɑfʌɫ

(countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
(countable, Britain) In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
(construction, also attributively) A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
(textiles, chiefly attributively) A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
(colloquial) (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
(Britain, dialectal) The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.

(transitive, slang) To smash (something).
(intransitive) To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
(intransitive) Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
(intransitive, aviation, road transport, colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
(intransitive, originally Northern England, Scotland, colloquial) To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
(transitive, intransitive) Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
(transitive) To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
(intransitive, Britain, dialectal) Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.

Examples of "waffle" in Sentences

By fknvty, December 19, 2009 @ 2: 21 pm the polly waffle is dead
The Cynical Dragon calls it 'chutzpah'; I'd just call it 'waffle'.
AAAAAAAAAAH! even my own brand of waffle is too much to stomach now, have some unrelated Burger-Fodder:
As each waffle is done, put it on a baking rack to cool; this helps prevent condensation and keeps the waffles crisp.
YETIIIII!!! yuummm to answer ur question about the penguin waffle maker ... it was the best thing my ex ever gave me! hahah how adorable is it?
I love this distro for the “just works” side of things, but lately, speaking as a tech and systems engineer, the flowery waffle is getting harder and harder to take.
Flax waffle is new today, because I was thinking about what I would have for dinner if timprov is not up and at-'em enough to have a real dinner with me, and we have flax waffles in the freezer, and they're not too bad, could be worse.
Note the splendidly PR-esque waffle from the man in the hotseat for this one: The area commander for North Kent police, Chief Superintendent Paul Brandon, said: Police in north Kent have worked closely with Mr Stepney and Mr Read to resolve problems they were having regarding anti-social behaviour.