waffle

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  1. noun A light crisp battercake baked in a waffle iron.
  2. intransitive verb To speak or write evasively.
  3. transitive verb To speak, write, or act evasively about.
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  • Katya gave Anther a small plate with one waffle, a tablespoon of syrup drizzled over the top. —  F ;SF - vol 090 issue 03 - March 1996
  • Theo finished another waffle, and looked in despair at the batter she'd made. —  Author Galley
  • We also saved the bran to throw onto the compost pile, which after we got home we did, then we had some waffles, the first waffles the twins ever had, which was interesting: how DOES one handle a first waffle -- and without chopsticks? —  PureLandMountain.com
  • Together, the duo team up with the other members of G-Force to solve puzzles and fight enemies, including evil household appliances, such as waffle irons, water coolers and, of course, the deadly vacuum cleaner. —  Latest from PALGN
  • The show was pretty much awful (waffle), but there was one redeeming quality to the show; Fleet Foxes absolutely killed it. —  FILTER
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pancake ·  pastry ·  fritter ·  bacon ·  cornbread ·  toast ·  porridge ·  croissant ·  omelet ·  pasta ·  gingerbread ·  cutlet

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waffle:   waffles ·  waffled ·  waffling
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Dutch wafel, from Middle Dutch wāfel; see webh- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Probably frequentative of obsolete waff, to yelp, probably of imitative origin.

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  1. = German waffel = Danish vaffel = Swedish våffla, from D. and Low German wafel, wafer: see wafer.
  2. Freq. of waff.
  3. Freq. of waff.
 

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