waffle

IPA: wˈɑfʌɫ

noun

  • (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.

verb

  • (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

  • Cut the waffle in half.
  • I ate waffle with cream.
  • The waffle iron's still in the shop.
  • How long does it take to cook waffle
  • The man waffled as she asks the question.
  • The Last of the Mohicans and a belgian waffle maker.
  • The waffle about the US being a product of the UK is irrelevant.
  • Kismet is made of crisp waffle and nougat covered in milk chocolate.
  • In America, they are served in the same ways the American waffle is served.
  • Micole has been inducted into the way of the chicken, and the way of the waffle.

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