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waffleyness

waffleyness is the alternative spelling of waffliness.

Meaning of waffliness

Noun

waffliness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being waffly.
    • Funny, but there’s summat of her father in her. A kind of spiritual and mental ‘waffleyness’. It’s all he had to leave and by God, poor little ’Nanda got it. It’s a sort of ‘come day, go day, God send Sunday’ attitude towards life. Whenever she didn’t want to face up to things, she shrugged her...1937, Naomi Jacob, Fade Out, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, book 2, chapter 6, section I, pages 148–149

Origin of waffleyness

From waffley + -ness.

Questions about waffleyness

What is waffleyness the alternative spelling of?
Waffleyness is the alternative spelling of waffliness.

Words near waffleyness in the dictionary

  1. wafflery
  2. waffles
  3. wafflestomper
  4. wafflestompers
  5. waffley
  6. waffleyness
  7. wafflier
  8. waffliest
  9. waffliness
  10. waffling
  11. wafflingly

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