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waffle

noun verb

A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern.

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Word length
6
Starts with
W
Ends with
E
Contains
AFFL
Scrabble score
15
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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Pronunciation

/ˈwɒ.fl/ /ˈwɑ.fl/

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Definitions

noun

  1. A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern.

    “The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.”

  2. A potato waffle, a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.

verb

  1. To smash.

noun

  1. Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive.

    “This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle.”

verb

  1. (of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. Cf wiffle, whiffle.

    “The geese waffled as they approached the water.”

  2. To speak or write vaguely and evasively.

  3. To speak or write at length without any clear point or aim.

  4. To vacillate.

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

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Example Sentences

The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.
This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle.
The geese waffled as they approached the water.

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