waffle Definition

waffle¹
noun

1. cookery.
A light-textured cake made of batter, with a distinctive grid-like surface pattern formed by the hinged iron mould (called a waffle iron) in which it is baked.

Etymology: 18c: from Dutch wafel.

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waffle² (colloq)
verb, intr waffled, waffling

1. To talk or write at length but to little purpose.

Form: waffle on (also)
2. To waver or vacillate.

Thesaurus: hedge, evade, equivocate, hem and haw, sidestep, tergiversate, sit on the fence.

noun

1. Talk or writing of this kind.

Derivative: waffler
noun

Etymology: 19c: originally Scots and N England dialect.