waffle

1. (transitive, slang) To smash (something).Examples: "The cab was waffled in between the two, Marsh never having a prayer or even a full comprehension of what happened to him. He was crushed flat, never even hearing the deafening screech of metal."; "These were not the Cowboys who were waffled, 45–14, here at mid-season. They came prepared to play a championship football game, with an ultra-conservative game plan suited to the horrendous turf conditions, and came close to pulling it off …"; "Then I waffled him and knocked him down. Why I cut myself open with the razor, I'm not completely sure. I was like the idiot in a bar who gets all worked up and smashes a bottle over his head [...]"slangtransitive

1. (intransitive) To speak or write evasively or vaguely.Examples: "Again the answer was "waffled," for this did not say that no air units had been alerted. Only that none had been "identified." Moreover, the reply concerned air "unit[s]" as opposed to "air craft"."Synonyms: beat around the bushintransitive

2. (intransitive) Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.Examples: "The geese waffled as they approached the water."Synonyms: whiffleintransitive

3. (intransitive, aviation, road transport, colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.colloquialintransitive

4. (intransitive, originally Northern England, Scotland, colloquial) To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.Examples: "I waffled between going to the deposition and going to the doctor's. Wishing Barbara was there, I decided to call the doctor afterward."; "But as Germany struggles to overcome its post-World War II reluctance to lead on security matters in Europe and set aside its instinct to accommodate rather than confront Russia, Europe’s most pivotal country has waffled in the first crucial test for the new government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz."; "A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Brockman to return, but has since waffled — missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign."Synonyms: blow hot and coldScotlandcolloquialintransitive

5. (ambitransitive) Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.Examples: "Unless you have a great line in gags or repartee don't waffle on aimlessly to your audience, or make in-jokes among yourselves, the band or the compere/DJ."; "Before getting down to the nitty gritty of beekeeping, most contributors to BBJ like to waffle on for a bit about the weather, the state of their garden or something equally inconsequential."; "She waffled on for ages. Usually I'd say something smart or make it obvious that I wasn't interested and couldn't be bothered listening."Synonyms: babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber, blather, carp, chat, chatterambitransitive

6. (transitive) To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.Examples: "“[…] You get anything useful on the background checks?” / He waffled his hand. “Nothing like what you brought back, but still some interesting notes.[…]”"transitive

1. (colloquial) (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.Examples: "This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle."Synonyms: babble, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blabbing, blather, blatheringcolloquialuncountable

1. (intransitive, British, dialectal) Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.Britishdialectalintransitive

1. (British, dialectal) The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.Britishdialectal