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A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern.

Example: The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.

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

To smash.

Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive.

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

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

Example: The geese waffled as they approached the water.

To speak or write vaguely and evasively.

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

To vacillate.