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1.NounA flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup."The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream."
2.NounIn full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
3.NounA concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
4.NounA type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
5.VerbTo smash (something).
6.VerbTo speak or write evasively or vaguely."He waffled on for much of the earnings call without addressing the fall in share price."
7.VerbOf a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing."The geese waffled as they approached the water."
8.VerbOf an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
9.VerbTo be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
10.VerbOften followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
11.VerbTo hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
12.Noun(Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious."This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle."
13.VerbOf a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
14.NounThe high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.