Значение

значений: 8

  1. (сленг, переходный)To smash (something).

  2. (Британия, непереходный)To speak or write evasively or vaguely.

    He waffled on for much of the earnings call without addressing the fall in share price.

    schwafeln

  3. (непереходный)Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.

    The geese waffled as they approached the water.

  4. (разговорное, непереходный)Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.

    gemächlich dahingleiten

  5. (Шотландия, разговорное, непереходный)To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.

  6. (переходный и непереходный)Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.

    schwafeln

    лить во́дуlitʹ vódu, болта́ть по́пустуboltátʹ pópustu, трепа́ться без то́лкуtrepátʹsja bez tólku

  7. (переходный)To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.

    pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness

  8. (Британия, диалектное, непереходный)Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.

Примеры

предложений: 65

  1. Do you like waffles?

    Ты любишь вафли?

    ukТи любиш вафлі?

    deMagst du Waffeln?

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  2. We made waffles.

    Мы испекли вафли.

    deWir haben Waffeln gebacken.

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  3. I'm making waffles.

    Я делаю вафли.

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  4. Do you want me to make you waffles?

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  5. We ate waffles for breakfast.

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Переводы

языков: 5
Русский
По значениям 1
to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point — see also ramble:
Deutsch
По значениям 2
to speak or write evasively or vaguely:
of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner:

Происхождение

The noun is borrowed from Dutch wafel (“waffle; wafer”), from Middle Dutch wafel, wafele,

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; compare, from the same verbal root, German Wabe (“honeycomb”), given that the grid pattern of the traditional Dutch lent and holiday pastry strikingly resembles a honeycomb), and possibly reinforced by German Waffel (“waffle; wafer”). The English word is a doublet of wafer and gauffre.

The verb is borrowed from Scots waffle (“to waver, flap, flutter”), from waff (“to wag, wave; to flap, flutter”) + -le (diminutive or frequentative suffix), from Middle Scots waff (“signal; gust of wind; glimpse; a flapping, waving”), from Northern Middle English wafe, waffe, a variant of waven (“to move to and fro, sway; to stray, wander; (figuratively) to follow a weaving course; (figuratively) to vacillate, waver; to move something to and fro, wave”) (whence wave), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (“to sway; to wander”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”).

Possibly from waff (“(dialectal) to bark, woof”) (imitative of a dog’s yelp) + -le (diminutive or frequentative suffix).

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Формы

waffles, waffling, waffled, waffled
Базовая формаwaffle · to waffle
3-е лицо ед. числаwaffles
Причастие настоящего времениwaffling
Прошедшее времяwaffled
Причастие прошедшего времениwaffled

правильный · Урок

Present simpleУрок

I, you, we, theywaffle
he, she, itwaffles

Past simpleУрок

все лицаwaffled

Present perfectУрок

I, you, we, theyhave waffled
he, she, ithas waffled

Future simple (will)Урок

все лицаwill waffle

Синонимы

синонимов: 48
babbleC2chatA2rabbitA1beat around the bushwhiffleblow hot and coldbat the breezeblabblabberblathercarpchatterchew the fatchew the rag
Близкие по смыслу

Однокоренные

связанных слов: 4
Связанныеwaffler
Производныеwaffleywafflywaffling

Уроки к слову

уроков: 3

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