wafflen.1
/ˈwɒfl/, U.S. /ˈwɑfəl/, /ˈwɔfəl/ U.S.
a. A kind of batter-cake, baked in a waffle-iron, and eaten hot with butter or molasses.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > waffle
waffle1744
1744 [see waffle frolic n. at Compounds 1]. 1794 [see waffle-iron n. at Compounds 2].
1809 A. Burr Private Jrnl. 26 Aug. (1903) I. 214 Everywhere, too, you get wafen; our wafles, and made and eaten in the same way.
1817 M. Birkbeck Notes Journey Amer. (1818) 64 Waffles (a soft hot cake of German extraction, covered with butter).
1870 D. Macrae Americans at Home I. 291 The Americans are all fond of molasses; using them regularly at breakfast and supper to their buckwheat cakes and waffles.
1893 T. N. Page In Ole Virginia 221 He ordered waffles and hoe-cakes for breakfast.
b. Textiles. Used attributively of a style of fine honeycomb weaving (see honeycomb n. Compounds 1b). Also applied to the fabric woven and to the effect produced.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > with raised or embossed surface
brocaded1656
brocade1711
honeycomb1818
piqué1858
brochéa1877
matelassé1881
waffle1930
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [adjective] > weaving > types of
high warp1728
plain-weave1888
waffle1930
folk weave1938
leno1964
1930 Manitoba Free Press (Winnipeg) 3 May 11/1 (advt.) Dress Cottons, Sale Priced...Printed Pique, Ratine and Waffle Pique.
1949 Good Housek. Apr. 261/2 Waffle piqué is characterized by a honeycomb weave; it is not a true piqué.
1951 in M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 74 (advt.) We had it copied faithfully for you in the..white Birdseye waffle pique.
1953 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Mar. (B ed.) 3/4 Part of the secret lay in the ‘waffle-weave’, a..technique which required special machinery... It produces a cloth that looks like a waffle, or a honeycomb.
1961 Sunday Express 28 May 14/2 (caption) Tops in waffle-knit cotton.
1962 W. Schirra in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 49 A series of waffle-weave patches on our long john underwear helps to keep the oxygen moving.
1975 G. Howell In Vogue 242/2 (caption) Elements of the mid-fifties—the ‘sloppy Joe’,..the waffle cotton shorts.
1979 Men's Wear 3 May 24 Texture returns with fine seersuckers and waffle cloth.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
waffle frolic n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feast by type of food
ambigu1669
oyster feast1718
waffle frolic1744
turtle-frolic1750
turtle-feast1753
turtle1771
turtle-dinner1805
waffle party1808
whitebait dinner1809
blood feast1832
sausage party1848
luau1853
pig roast1887
corn-roast1899
hog roast1908
marshmallow roast1914
spit roast1927
1744 in Mag. Amer. Hist. (1878) II. 442 For my own part I was not a little grieved that so luxurious a feast should come under the name of a wafel frolic.
waffle-mould n.
ΚΠ
1864 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches in Wks. XIX. 335 When he recovered from his illness his face was pitted like a waffle-mould, and his comeliness gone forever.
waffle party n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feast by type of food
ambigu1669
oyster feast1718
waffle frolic1744
turtle-frolic1750
turtle-feast1753
turtle1771
turtle-dinner1805
waffle party1808
whitebait dinner1809
blood feast1832
sausage party1848
luau1853
pig roast1887
corn-roast1899
hog roast1908
marshmallow roast1914
spit roast1927
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > dinner- (etc.) party
dinner party1749
supper party1754
waffle party1808
breakfast-party1814
1808 E. S. Bowne Let. in Scribner's Mag. (1887) Aug. 183/1 They are going to have a fine waffle party on Tuesday.
1882 Harper's Mag. Apr. 666/1 She tells him of ‘little waffle parties’ formed by her intimates.
waffle-wagon n.
ΚΠ
1908 A. Ruhl Other Americans vi. 90 Crowding round the pay-window just as boys at home might crowd round a waffle-wagon or hokey-pokey ice-cream cart.
C2.
waffle-iron n. an iron utensil for baking waffles over a fire.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > wafer- or waffle-iron
obley-iron1346
wafer-iron1459
wafer-tongs1763
waffle-iron1794
1794 S.-Carolina State-gaz. 30 Aug. 1/2 (advt.) Waffle irons.
1866 C. H. Smith Bill Arp, so Called 115 Didn't the rebellion just close right up on the ground behind him, just like shutting up a pair of waffle-irons?
1899 Academy 11 Feb. 183/1 Toasting-forks and waffle-irons had long handles, to make endurable the blazing heat of the great logs.
waffle stomper n. U.S. slang a boot or shoe with a heavy, ridged sole.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > [noun] > types of
crakowc1367
veldskoen1822
lace-up1824
right1825
purrer1827
stitchdown shoe1840
clump-sole1879
high-top1895
low-tops1913
zip-up1942
peep-toe1947
Dr. Martens1969
waffle stomper1974
1974 Sunday (Charleston, S. Carolina) 7 Apr. 10- c/8 ‘Waffle stompers’, should anybody be wondering, are hiking shoes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
wafflen.2
/ˈwɒfl/, U.S. /ˈwɑfəl/, /ˈwɔfəl/Categories »
1. dialect. ‘The bark of a small dog’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
2.
Categories »
a. Printers' slang. ‘Twaddle, gossip, or “jaw”’ (Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 1888).
b. In gen. colloquial use, verbose but inconsequential talk or writing; empty verbiage (see also quot. 1937).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter
chirma800
clappingc1386
glavera1400
clapa1420
clackc1440
blabc1460
clattera1500
babble?a1525
babblery1532
pratery1533
clitter-clatter1535
by-talk?1551
prattle1555
prittle-prattle1556
twittle-twattle1565
cacquet1567
prate?1574
prattlement1579
babblement1595
gibble-gabble1600
gabble1602
twattlea1639
tolutiloquence1656
pratement1657
gaggle1668
leden1674
cackle1676
twit-twat1677
clash1685
chit-chat1710
chatter-chitter1711
chitter-chatter1712
palavering1732
hubble-bubble1735
palaver1748
rattle1748
gum1751
mag1778
gabber1780
gammon1781
gash1787
chattery1789
gabber1792
whitter-whatter1805
yabble1808
clacket1812
talky-talky1812
potter1818
yatter1827
blue streak1830
gabblement1831
psilologya1834
chin-music1834
patter1841
jaw1842
chatter1851
brabble1861
tongue-work1866
yacker1882
talkee1885
chelp1891
chattermag1895
whitter1897
burble1898
yap1907
clatfart1913
jive1928
logorrhœa1935
waffle1937
yackety-yacking1953
yack1958
yackety-yack1958
motormouth1976
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > verbosity > instance of
verbosity1610
verbalism1810
waffle1937
1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 219 Waffle-bags, a great talker.]
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 935/1 Waffle, nonsense; gossip(ing); incessant or copious talk.
1953 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Mar. 164/1 A little technical detail and a good deal of emotional waffle.
1957 Economist 21 Dec. 1041/2 His ability to distinguish the essence and to cut the waffle in any discussion are exceptional.
1961 C. S. Lewis Let. 9 May (1966) 298 For a good..defence of our position against modern woffle... I know nothing better than G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man.
1965 Spectator 22 Jan. 96/1 There is a special relationship between Britain and the United States, a special relationship more serious than the waffle we get at banquets.
1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon i. 20 Cut out the waffle, and let's see your application.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
wafflev.
/ˈwɒfl/, U.S. /ˈwɑfəl/, /ˈwɔfəl/ 1. intransitive. To yelp. Now dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [verb (intransitive)] > bark
barkc885
galec1275
abayc1400
baffc1440
bawl1556
waff1570
baugh1576
prate1592
gladish1608
waffle1698
yamph1718
woof1804
allatrate1806
yaff1808
bow-wow1832
yaffle1847
kyoodle1935
1698 S. Crisp Christ Exalted 77 His branding all that dissent from the Writings of Mr. Williams to be Whaffling Whelps, that can bark and not bite.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 23 Waffling curs and shepherd-dogs pursue.
2.
a. To waver; to vacillate or equivocate; to ‘dither’. Originally Scottish and northern dialect. Now colloquial or nonstandard.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)]
haltc825
flecchec1300
waverc1315
flickerc1325
wag1387
swervea1400
floghter1521
stacker1526
to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530
wave1532
stagger1533
to hang in the wind1536
to waver as, like, with the wind1548
mammer1554
sway1563
dodge1568
erch1584
suspend1585
float1598
swag1608
hoverc1620
hesitate1623
vacillate1623
fluctuate1634
demur1641
balance1656
to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674
to stand shall I, shall I1674
to go shill-I shall-I1700
to stand at shilly-shally1700
to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734
whiffle1737
dilly-dally1740
to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751
oscillate1771
shilly-shally1782
dacker1817
librate1822
humdrum1825
swing1833
(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848
to back and fill1854
haver1866
wobble1867
shaffle1873
dicker1879
to be on the weigh-scales1886
waffle1894
to think twice1898
to teeter on the brink1902
dither1908
vagulate1918
pern1920
1805 [see waffler n. 1]. 1868 [see waffling adj. and n. at Derivatives].
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Waffle, to waft about, to waver, to walk hesitatingly, to act with indecision.
1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 152 Thoo'l waffle aboot an' say owt.
1943 Horizon Apr. 234 While I was still waffling I read ‘The Mint’.
1961 C. H. D. Todd Pop. Whippet 51 Have we an ideal or are we just ‘waffling around’ following this, that and the other.
1976 Telegraph-Jrnl. (St. John, New Brunswick) 4 Sept. 17/1 She defends the board against suggestions that it waffled on the issue because of political pressure.
b. To talk (or write) in a verbose but inconsequential manner; to ramble on. Also transitive with direct speech as object.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > use language nonsensically [verb (intransitive)]
roya1450
to talk (or speak) at rovers1542
nonsense1822
squiddle1824
twaddle1825
fudge1834
buncomize1871
to be full of prunes1887
waffle1900
jive1928
bullshit1942
to talk out of one's arse1973
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > ramble or waffle
blether1524
spout1556
ramble1616
extravage1759
maunder1834
mumble-jumble1834
moider1839
gander1858
mither1860
burble1891
flap-doodle1893
waffle1900
bumble1911
wibble1994
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > utter nonsensically [verb (transitive)]
rove1581
trifle1823
fudge1834
twaddle1837
crap1928
bullshit1942
waffle1957
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > utter in a chattering manner [verb (transitive)] > utter in a rambling manner
burble1920
waffle1957
1701 J. White Country-man's Conductor 128 Waffling, all speakers and no hearers.]
1900 J. S. Farmer Public School Word-bk. 216 Waffle,..(Durham) to talk nonsense.
1936 R. Lehmann Weather in Streets i. v. 83 Nanny would wuffle on, and make me change my stockings.
1937 G. Heyer They found him Dead iv. 83 He woffled a whole lot to me about people bothering his life out.
1949 J. B. Priestley Delight 15 The wise men woffled on about violence and crime, missing the point by miles.
1957 G. Smith Friends 60 ‘Funny thing is, it seems to improve my game,’ waffled Bill amiably.
1960 L. Meynell Bandaberry i. 8 I under-estimated his shrewdness... I thought he was waffling.
1982 P. Dickinson Last House-party ii. 22 You can make the correct noises while all the old buffers are woffling on.
Derivatives
ˈwaffling adj. and n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective]
tooma1250
beggarly1526
trumpery1576
balductum1577
skimble-skamble1598
nonsense1621
warbling1621
flim-flam1631
nonsensical1645
unsensical1692
fiddlecome1697
waffling1698
mataeological1716
flummery1749
water-gruelish1788
slip-sloppish1797
twaddling1804
twaddle1830
twaddly1841
fee-faw-fumish1846
poppycock1852
boshy1860
twaddlesome1865
moonshiny1880
cockalorum1881
tommyrotic1894
crappy1928
ballsy1942
farkakte1960
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] > waffling or rambling
rambling1693
waffling1698
maundering1850
wittering1886
waffly1964
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [adjective] > howling or yelping
bawling1594
parlagea1657
yappeting1681
waffling1698
yamphing1728
yaffing1815
yap-yapping1865
yaffling1875
yappy1909
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > verbose
wordyOE
of many wordsc1350
windya1382
diffused?a1475
word-dearthing1593
verbosious1601
worded1602
wordish1604
diffuse1612
wording1615
diffusive1624
verbose1665
baggy1866
talky1937
waffling1945
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chattering
chaveling?c1225
janglingc1330
jangleryc1374
tatteringc1380
ganglinga1387
clatteringc1400
babbling?c1430
languetingc1450
pratinga1470
cackling1530
prattling1530
tattling1547
gaggling1548
clicketing1575
twattling1577
clacking1594
gabbling1599
blattering1604
snuttering1693
futileness1727
rattling1753
gabbering1798
magginga1800
yaffing1815
deblateration1817
tattlement1837
nattering1859
spieling1859
yattering1859
chatteration1862
quiddling1870
windjamming1886
waffling1958
motormouthing1981
1698*Whaffling [see sense 1]. 1821Waffling [see sense 1].
1847 J. Halliday Rustic Bard 145 'Tis you I punch at, worthless, wafflin crood.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. 554 A windy, waffling soort o' chap, wheea nivver kens his ain mind.
1873 R. Broughton Nancy xiii A little shrewish shrill bark, speedily changed into an apologetic..whiffling and whoffling.
1927 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 168/2 Almost immediately there was a woffling swell of hounds' cry.
1945 J. Reith Diary 11 Apr. (1975) vii. 346 A typical silly, waffling letter which Cranborne had written.
1958 J. Cannan And be Villain v. 118 His sharp harsh tones were a joy to hear after the wafflings of the soft voiced Highlander.
1967 New Yorker 8 July 67 There will be..a large majority for a waffling resolution..calling for Israel to withdraw from the conquered territories but not passing judgement on the original conquests.
1973 J. Wainwright Touch of Malice 231 Waffling, thoughtless stupidity.
1976 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 23 May 44/6 They should not be regarded as the wafflings of people sounding off in the papers.
Draft additions 1993
c. Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to cruise along in a leisurely manner, usually at low speed. colloquial (originally R.A.F. slang).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > fly [verb (intransitive)] > at cruising speed
cruise1915
waffle1941
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport or convey in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > of a motor car, vehicle, etc.
tour1908
twitch1958
waffle1969
1932 Flight 6 May 393/2 He did a terrific dive..followed by an upward spin, finishing with a ‘waffle’ across the aerodrome.]
1941 Listener 5 June 791/1 I came out of the cloud and there, dead in my sights and not 100 yards away, a Ju. 88 was waffling contentedly along.
1969 Telegraph (Brisbane) 27 June 2/1 She was waffling along nice and slow near Newmarket and a cop pulled her up.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.11744
n.21937v.1698- ripping line
- ripping off
- ripping panel
- ripping rope
- ripping saw
- ripping strip
- ripping up
- ripping valve
- ripping-chisel
- ripping-tool
- rippingchisel
- rippingly
- rippingness
- rippingtool
- rippit
- ripple
- ripple black
- ripple box
- ripple burnish
- ripple cloth
- ripple control
- ripple counter
- ripple drift
- ripple effect
- ripple fire