waffle
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noun- 1.
(countable)A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.
- 2.
(British, countable)In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
- 3.
(also, attributive)(construction, also attributively) A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
- 4.
(attributive)(textiles, chiefly attributively) A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
- 5.
(colloquial, uncountable)(Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle.
Đồng nghĩa: babble, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blabbing, blather, blathering, chatter, chinwag, chit-chat, claver, clepe, gabble, hot air, mardle, natter, palaver, prate, prattle, scuttlebutt, small talk, tattle, twaddle, waffle, yackety-yak, yap, yatter
- 6.
(British, dialectal)The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
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verb- 1.
(slang, transitive)To smash (something).
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 …
- 2.
(intransitive)To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
Đồng nghĩa: beat around the bush
- 3.
(intransitive)Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
The geese waffled as they approached the water.
Đồng nghĩa: whiffle
- 4.
(colloquial, intransitive)(intransitive, aviation, road transport, colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
- 5.
(Scotland, colloquial, intransitive)(intransitive, originally Northern England, Scotland, colloquial) To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
Đồng nghĩa: blow hot and cold
- 6.
(ambitransitive)Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
Đồng nghĩa: babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber, blather, carp, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chit-chat, chunner, clack, claver, clepe, drivel, jabber, gabble, gibber, go on, maunder, natter, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, rabbit, rabbit on, ramble, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, shoot the shit, smatter, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wibble, witter, yabber, yack, yatter, yap
- 7.
(transitive)To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
- 8.
(British, dialectal, intransitive)Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
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The noun is borrowed from Dutch wafel (waffle; wafer), from Middle Dutch wafel, wafele, wavel, from *wāvila, from Proto-Germanic *wēbilǭ, *wēbilō, possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (to braid, weave) (whence weven and weave;