waffle

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Synonyms: baffle, maffle, gaffle, raffle, faffle, wuffle, yaffle, wiffle, haffle, kaffle, waffly

Antonyms: baffle, maffle, gaffle, raffle, faffle, wuffle, yaffle, wiffle, haffle, kaffle, waffly

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Noun

1. 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. In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
3. A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
4. A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.

Verb

1. To smash (something).

Verb

1. To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
   • He waffled on for much of the earnings call without addressing the fall in share price.
2. Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
   • The geese waffled as they approached the water.
3. Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
4. To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
5. Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
6. To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.

Noun

1. (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.

Verb

1. Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.

Noun

1. The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.

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