waffle
verb/ˈwɒfl/
/ˈwɑːfl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they waffle | /ˈwɒfl/ /ˈwɑːfl/ |
| he / she / it waffles | /ˈwɒflz/ /ˈwɑːflz/ |
| past simple waffled | /ˈwɒfld/ /ˈwɑːfld/ |
| past participle waffled | /ˈwɒfld/ /ˈwɑːfld/ |
| -ing form waffling | /ˈwɒflɪŋ/ /ˈwɑːflɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] waffle (on) (about something) (British English, informal, disapproving) to talk or write using a lot of words but without saying anything interesting or important
- The principal waffled on about exam results but no one was listening.
- If you want to sound professional—don’t waffle.
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- [intransitive] waffle (on/over something) (North American English, informal) to be unable to decide what to do about something or what you think about something
- The senator was accused of waffling on major issues.
Word Originverb late 17th cent. (originally in the sense ‘yap, yelp’): frequentative of dialect waff ‘yelp’, of imitative origin.
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