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| waffle | |
| 1. Substantiv: | |
| 2. [1] Nahrungsmittel: die Waffel | |
| 3. [2] BE das Geschwafel | |
| [1] a crispy waffle with fresh berries and whipped cream | |
| [2] I will not listen to such waffle. | |
| Englisch > Englisch | |
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| waffle | |
| 1. subst. A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern. |  |
| The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream. | |
| 2. subst. (UK) A potato waffle, a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern. | |
| 3. v. To smash. | |
| 4. subst. Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive. | |
| This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle. | |
| 5. v. (of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. Cf wiffle, whiffle. | |
| The geese waffled as they approached the water. | |
| 6. v. To speak or write vaguely and evasively. | |
| 7. v. To speak or write at length without any clear point or aim. | |
| 8. v. To vacillate. | |
| 9. v. To rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of vacillation or ambivalence. | |
| Deutsch > Englisch | |
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| Waffel | |
| 1. n-f. waffle, wafer | |
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