waffles

Noun (1)

waffle (plural waffles)

1. A 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. (UK) In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
3. (also, attributive) A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
   • 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 […]1970, Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute, Manual of Standard Practice
4. (attributive) A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.

Noun (2)

waffle (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) (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.

   Synonyms:

   babble, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blabbing, blather, blathering, chatter, chinwag

Noun (3)

waffle (plural waffles)

1. (UK, dialectal) The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.

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