waffle
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
waffle (plural waffles)
- (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern.
- The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.
- (countable, UK) A potato waffle, a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
waffle (waffles, present participle waffling; past and past participle waffled)
- To smash.
- 1997, Bill Conlin, Kevin Kerrane (editor), "Batting cleanup, Bill Conlin", page 121:
- These were not the Cowboys who were waffled, 45-14, here at mid-season. They came prepared to play a championship football game, with an ultra-conservative game plan suited to the horrendous turf conditions, and came close to pulling it off [...]
- 2005, Shawn Michaels, with Aaron Feigenbaum, Heartbreak & Triumph: The Shawn Michaels Story, Page 47:
- Then I waffled him and knocked him down. Why I cut myself open with the razor, I'm not completely sure. I was like the idiot in a bar who gets all worked up and smashes a bottle over his head [...]
- 2006, Gordon Forbes, Tales from the Eagles Sideline (updated edition), page 2:
- Bednarik, however, says the play became legendary only because of the circumstances. " I did it [...] to the top honcho. He just happened to be there and the pass was thrown to him. I waffled him cleanly." [...] "He just cold-cocked Frank," said linebacker Bob Pellegrini, whose injury sent Bednarik into the game to play defense.
- 1997, Bill Conlin, Kevin Kerrane (editor), "Batting cleanup, Bill Conlin", page 121:
waffle (uncountable)
- (uncountable) Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive.
- This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle.
- (vague, pretentious or evasive talk) see Thesaurus:chatter
- French: langue de bois
- German: Geschwafel, leere Phrasen
- Portuguese: palrança, palração
waffle (waffles, present participle waffling; past and past participle waffled)
- (of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. confer#Latin|Cf wiffle, whiffle.
- The geese waffled as they approached the water.
- To speak or write vaguely and evasively.
- To speak or write at length without any clear point or aim.
- 1976 Tony Hatch, So you want to be in the music business, Everest Books, p68
- Unless you have a great line in gags or repartee don't waffle on aimlessly to your audience, or make in-jokes among yourselves, the band or the compere/DJ.
- 1984 "Apiary Antics- No.5," British bee journal, Volumes 112-113, p68
- Before getting down to the nitty gritty of beekeeping, most contributors to BBJ like to waffle on for a bit about the weather, the state of their garden or something equally inconsequential.
- 2005 Bill Condon, No Worries, Univ. of Queensland Press, p78
- She waffled on for ages. Usually I'd say something smart or make it obvious that I wasn't interested and couldn't be bothered listening.
- 2006 Carl Storm, A Mighty Fine Way to Live and Die, Backstrap Ltd, p8
- The whole thing ended suddenly when the hotel manager arrived. He waffled on for a bit; this settled everyone down.
- 1976 Tony Hatch, So you want to be in the music business, Everest Books, p68
- To vacillate.
- (transitive) To rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of vacillation or ambivalence.
- 2007, Michael Koryta, Sorrow’s Anthem, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-312-93660-0, page 146 ↗:
- “ […] You get anything useful on the background checks?” ¶ He waffled his hand. “Nothing like what you brought back, but still some interesting notes. […] ”
- 2007, Michael Koryta, Sorrow’s Anthem, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-312-93660-0, page 146 ↗:
- (vacillate) blow hot and cold
- (speak or write vaguely and evasively) beat around the bush
- See also Thesaurus:prattle
- German: schwafeln
- Italian: blaterare ciarlare cianciare
- Portuguese: palrar
- Russian: лить во́ду
- Spanish: divagar
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