waffle
A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or…A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
» Do you like waffles?
Magst du Waffeln? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Mögt ihr Waffeln? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Mögen Sie Waffeln? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Ты любишь вафли? — marafon
Вы любите вафли? — marafon
Ти любиш вафлі? — deniko
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6 sensesA flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.
Waffel
ва́фляváflja
ва́фляváflja
(UK)In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
(also, attributive)A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
(attributive)A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
(colloquial, uncountable)(Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle.
Geschwafel, leere Phrasen
(UK, dialectal)The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
- pancake batter baked in a waffle iron
Examples
65 sentencesDo you like waffles?
Ти любиш вафлі? — deniko
ruТы любишь вафли? — marafon
deMagst du Waffeln? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Do you want me to make you waffles?
We ate waffles for breakfast.
We made waffles.
ruМы испекли вафли. — marafon
deWir haben Waffeln gebacken. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I'm making waffles.
ruЯ делаю вафли. — odexed
Translations
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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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