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waffle
CEFRB1
/ˈwɒf.əl/
noun · verb
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A soft, flat cake with a pattern of small squares.
- 02
verb
To speak or write without making a clear decision.
Examples
He doled out the waffle batter with a large soup spoon.
I recommend giving it to them straight, don't waffle your way around the subject.
At a glance
Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- [wɒf.əl] ~ [wɒf.l̩]
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
More examples
In contextHe waffled on for much of the earnings call without addressing the fall in share price.
The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.
Grease the waffle maker.
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Origin
noun
The noun is borrowed from Dutch wafel (“waffle; wafer”), from Middle Dutch wafel, wafele, wavel, from Old Dutch *wāvila, from Proto-Germanic *wēbilǭ, *wēbilō, possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”) (whence Dutch weven (“to weave”) and English weave; compare, from the same verbal root, German Wabe (“honeycomb”), given that the grid pattern of the traditional Dutch lent and holiday pastry strikingly resembles a honeycomb), and possibly reinforced by German Waffel (“waffle; wafer”). The English word is a doublet of wafer and gauffre. The verb (“to smash”) derives from the manner in which batter is pressed into the shape of a waffle between the two halves of a waffle...