WAFFLE

waffle

(noun) pancake batter baked in a waffle iron

hesitate, waver, waffle

(verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; “Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

waffle (plural waffles)

(countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern.

(countable, UK) A potato waffle, a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.

Verb

waffle (third-person singular simple present waffles, present participle waffling, simple past and past participle waffled)

To smash.

Etymology 2

Noun

waffle (uncountable)

(uncountable) Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive.

Synonyms

• (vague, pretentious or evasive talk): see chatter

Verb

waffle (third-person singular simple present waffles, present participle waffling, simple past and past participle waffled)

(of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. Cf wiffle, whiffle.

To speak or write vaguely and evasively.

To speak or write at length without any clear point or aim.

To vacillate.

(transitive) To rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of vacillation or ambivalence.

Synonyms

• (vacillate): blow hot and cold

• (speak or write vaguely and evasively): beat around the bush

• See also prattle

Source: Wiktionary

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Waffle, n. Etym: [D. wafel. See Wafer.]

1. A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

2. A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron. Waffle iron, an iron utensil or mold made in two parts shutting together, -- used for cooking waffles over a fire.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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