waffle🔊

(Q375)A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.

(Britain) ''In full'' potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.

(attributively) A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.

(attributively) A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.

(slang) To smash (something).

To speak or write evasively or vaguely.

Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.

(colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.

(vacillate) (colloquial) To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.

''Often followed by'' on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.

To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.

(colloquial) (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.

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

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