Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
2. (countable, British) In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
3. (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.
4. (textiles, chiefly attributively) A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
5. (transitive, slang) To smash (something).
6. (intransitive) To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
7. (intransitive) Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
8. (intransitive, aviation, road transport, colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.

Example Sentences

The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.

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

Both joists and slab are cast in place to form a monolithic unit, integral with the supporting beams and columns. The joists form a characteristic waffle pattern on the underside. Structural design of joist construction: one-way or waffle flat slab […]

The most widely used type of waffle construction is the waffle flat slab, in which solid portions around column supports are […] These beams may be produced as projections below the waffle, as shown […]

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

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 …

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.

Then I waffled him and knocked him down. Why I cut myself open with the razor, I'm not completely sure. I was like the idiot in a bar who gets all worked up and smashes a bottle over his head [...]

Word Forms

• waffles
• waffling
• waffled

Synonyms for waffle

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