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.
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