verb · transitive · rare

waffle

waf·fle

waffle · waffles · waffled · waffling

продовжувати, продовжити, відбуватися

лить воду, болтать попусту, трепаться без толку

schwafeln

To smashTo smash (something).

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UK/ˈwɒf.əl/US/ˈwɑf.əl/

» Do you like waffles?

Magst du Waffeln?

Mögt ihr Waffeln?

Mögen Sie Waffeln?

Ты любишь вафли?

Вы любите вафли?

Ти любиш вафлі?

Meaning

8 senses

(slang, transitive)To smash (something).
(UK, intransitive)To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
He waffled on for much of the earnings call without addressing the fall in share price.
schwafeln
(intransitive)Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
The geese waffled as they approached the water.
(colloquial, intransitive)Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
gemächlich dahingleiten
(Scotland, colloquial, intransitive)To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
(ambitransitive)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
(transitive)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
(UK, dialectal, intransitive)Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.

Examples

65 sentences

Do you like waffles?
Ти любиш вафлі? — deniko
ruТы любишь вафли? — marafon
deMagst du Waffeln? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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Do you want me to make you waffles?
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We ate waffles for breakfast.
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We made waffles.
ruМы испекли вафли. — marafon
deWir haben Waffeln gebacken. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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I'm making waffles.
ruЯ делаю вафли. — odexed
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Translations

5 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point — see also ramble:

Deutsch

By meaning 2

to speak or write evasively or vaguely:

of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner:

Origin

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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