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Definition waffle

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch wafel into American English, from Middle Dutch wafel, wavel, wafele, from Old Dutch *w?vila, from Proto-Germanic *w?bil?, *w?bil?, akin to the verb at hand in Dutch weven, a cognate and synonym of English weave (due to the pastry�s honeycomb pattern). This American borrowing may have been reinforced by German Waffel, an earlier borrowing from the same Dutch source. An even earlier borrowing of Old French walfre is the origin of French gaufre and English wafer.

The verb sense "to smash" derives from the manner in which waffle-batter is smashed into its shape between the two halves of a waffle iron, and the sense "to press a waffle pattern into" derives from the pattern the waffle-iron-halves impart.

Noun

waffle (plural waffles)

1. (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern.
2. (countable, Britain) 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)

1. To smash.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots waffle (�to waver, flutter�), a variation of the waff (�to flutter, wave�), related to English wave, with the suffix Scots -le added. Alternatively, perhaps derived from waff, an imitation of a dog's yelp (cf. woof). Also note Old English w�flian (�to talk foolishly�).

Noun

waffle (uncountable)

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

Verb

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

1. (of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. Cf wiffle, whiffle.
2. To speak or write vaguely and evasively.
3. To speak or write at length without any clear point or aim.
4. To vacillate.
5. (transitive) To rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of vacillation or ambivalence.

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