Waffle

Quick meaning: Waffle is a noun meaning (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (countable, British) In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
2. (textiles, chiefly attributively) A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
3. (transitive, slang) To smash (something).
4. (intransitive) To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
5. (intransitive) Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
6. (intransitive, aviation, road transport, colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
7. (construction, also attributively) A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.

Example Sentences

The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.

In one-way (pan joist) and two-way (waffle) joist construction, a similar layout is usually adopted.

This takeaway counter serves up some of Hong Kong's best eggettes, the egg-shaped waffles beloved by local children and adults alike.

The cab was waffled in between the two, Marsh never having a prayer or even a full comprehension of what happened to him. He was crushed flat, never even hearing the deafening screech of metal.

Word Forms

• waffles
• waffling
• waffled

Synonyms for waffle

Depending on context, synonyms include whiffle, babble, blab, blabber, blather, carp.

Related Words

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