waffle

Etymology 1
The is borrowed from, from , , , from , from , , possibly related to  (whence 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬), and possibly reinforced by. The English word is a.

The (“to smash”) derives from the manner in which batter is pressed into the shape of a waffle between the two halves of a waffle iron.

Noun

 * 1)  A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
 * 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.
 * 1)  A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
 * 1)  A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
 * 1)  A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
 * 1)  A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: ва́фля
 * Bulgarian: гофрѐта
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 華夫, 窩夫,
 * Cantonese: 格仔餅
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vaffel
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: vaflo
 * Estonian: vahvel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: vaiféal
 * Italian: ferratella
 * Japanese: ワッフル
 * Khmer: នំពុម្ព
 * Korean: 와플
 * Luxembourgish:, Gaufre
 * Macedonian: вафла
 * Malay: wafel
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: vaffel
 * Plautdietsch: Wofel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish: waffle, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Walloon:
 * Yiddish: וואַפֿליע

Verb

 * 1)  To smash (something).
 * 2) * 1997, Bill Conlin, Kevin Kerrane (editor), "Batting cleanup, Bill Conlin", page 121:
 * These were not the Cowboys who were waffled, 45–14, here at mid-season. They came prepared to play a championship football game, with an ultra-conservative game plan suited to the horrendous turf conditions, and came close to pulling it off [...]
 * These were not the Cowboys who were waffled, 45–14, here at mid-season. They came prepared to play a championship football game, with an ultra-conservative game plan suited to the horrendous turf conditions, and came close to pulling it off [...]

Etymology 2
The is borrowed from, from  +. is derived from Early, from Northern , , a variant of (whence ), from , from , , from.

Regarding sense 5 (“to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point”), compare, possibly ultimately from , from and/or. The  does not derive the English word waffle from this Old English word. Compare also 🇨🇬.

The is derived from the verb.

Verb

 * 1)  To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
 * 2)  Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
 * 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.
 * 1)  Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
 * 2)  To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
 * 3)  Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
 * 4)  To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
 * 1)  Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
 * 2)  To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
 * 1)  Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
 * 2)  To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
 * 1)  To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
 * 1)  To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
 * 1)  To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
 * 1)  To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
 * 1)  To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Maori: hākirikiri, waha hakirara


 * German:


 * German: gemächlich dahingleiten


 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, , , , rizsál, , nyomja a sódert,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ごちゃごちゃ言う
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, болта́ть по́пусту, трепа́ться без то́лку
 * Spanish:

Noun

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

Translations

 * Dutch:, wollige taal
 * Estonian: loba
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, leere Phrasen
 * Hungarian:, , , süketelés, , , ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Japanese: むだ口
 * Korean: 거만한 말
 * Maori: waha hakirara
 * Polish: wodolejstwo
 * Portuguese: palrança, ,

Etymology 3
Possibly from ( of a dog’s yelp) +.

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.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  type of flat pastry

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   type of flat pastry