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waffle

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Meaning

  1. noun 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. noun In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
  3. noun A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
  4. noun A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
  5. verb To smash (something).
  6. verb To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
    He waffled on for much of the earnings call without addressing the fall in share price.
  7. verb Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
    The geese waffled as they approached the water.
  8. verb Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.

Similar words

bull bullshit fake house sway parade verbiage gossip talk waffle cone

Often followed by

iron house irons and on slab with cone slabs

Word family

waffled waffler wafflers waffles waffling

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