You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
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
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.
waffle (third-person singular simple present waffles, present participle waffling, simple past and past participle waffled)
To smash.
waffle (uncountable)
(uncountable) Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive.
• (vague, pretentious or evasive talk): see chatter
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.
• (vacillate): blow hot and cold
• (speak or write vaguely and evasively): beat around the bush
• See also prattle
Source: Wiktionary
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
6 May 2025
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.