waffle

Signification

Noun

1. A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
2. In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
3. A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
4. A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.

Verb

To smash (something).

Verb

1. To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
2. Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
3. (colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
4. (colloquial) To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
5. Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
6. To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.

Verb

Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.

Coupé comme

waf‧fle

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈwɒf.l̩/

Étymologie

The noun is borrowed from Dutch wafel (“waffle; wafer”), from Middle Dutch wafel, wafele, wavel, from Old Dutch *wāvila, from Proto-Germanic *wēbilǭ, *wēbilō, possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”) (whence Dutch weven (“to weave”) and English weave), and possibly reinforced by German Waffel (“waffle; wafer”). The English word is a doublet of wafer and gauffre.
The verb (“to smash”) derives from the manner in which batter is pressed into the shape of a waffle between the two halves of a waffle iron.