Associations to the word «Waffle»

Pictures for the word «Waffle»

Wiktionary

WAFFLE, noun. (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern.
WAFFLE, noun. (countable) (UK) A potato waffle, a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
WAFFLE, verb. To smash.
WAFFLE, noun. (uncountable) Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive.
WAFFLE, verb. (of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. Cf wiffle, whiffle.
WAFFLE, verb. To speak or write vaguely and evasively.
WAFFLE, verb. To speak or write at length without any clear point or aim.
WAFFLE, verb. To vacillate.
WAFFLE, verb. (transitive) To rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of vacillation or ambivalence.
WAFFLE IRON, noun. A cooking appliance, with hinged, indented metal plates, used to make waffles.
WAFFLE IRONS, noun. Plural of waffle iron

Dictionary definition

WAFFLE, noun. Pancake batter baked in a waffle iron.
WAFFLE, verb. Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures".

Wise words

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain