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Synonyms for waffle

Grammar : Verb
Spell : wof-uh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˌwɒf əl

Définition of waffle

Origin :
  • 1744, from Dutch wafel "waffle," from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German wafel, from Proto-Germanic *wabila- "web, honeycomb" (cf. Old High German waba "honeycomb," German Wabe), related to Old High German weban, Old English wefan "to weave" (see weave (v.)). Sense of "honeycomb" is preserved in some combinations referring to a weave of cloth. Waffle iron is from 1794.
  • verb waver
Example sentences :
  • It took it a long time, this little piece of waffle, to go down.
  • Extract from : « The Trimming of Goosie » by James Hopper
  • They looked as though they had been ironed with waffle irons.
  • Extract from : « Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa » by George W. Peck
  • Those that bake one waffle at a time are the handsomest and most manageable.
  • Extract from : « Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book » by Eliza Leslie
  • This the Widow at once spread upon the hot Waffle and offered it to the King.
  • Extract from : « The King of Gee-Whiz » by Emerson Hough
  • Perry managed a waffle and a sausage, but then he went off to his room.
  • Extract from : « Makers » by Cory Doctorow
  • Every waffle that I eat he might have had if I had not been here.
  • Extract from : « The Inventions of the Idiot » by John Kendrick Bangs
  • He couldn't decline to give me that waffle because he wanted it himself.
  • Extract from : « The Inventions of the Idiot » by John Kendrick Bangs
  • If you took a trick with the king of diamonds in it, you'd get the waffle with the king of diamonds on it, and so on.
  • Extract from : « The Inventions of the Idiot » by John Kendrick Bangs
  • He accepted a waffle from Mrs. Basine with exaggerated formality.
  • Extract from : « Gargoyles » by Ben Hecht
  • So that in the morning, on rising, one is as furrowed as a waffle off the iron.
  • Extract from : « Tenting To-night » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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