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Definition: Waffle |
WaffleNoun1. Pancake batter baked in a waffle iron. Verb1. Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness: "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "waffle" was first used: 1744. (references) |
Etymology: Waffle \Waffle\, noun. [from Dutch expression wafel. See Wafer.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A waffle is a flat batter cake cooked between two hot plates that are called a waffle iron. It has a distinctive gridlike appearance, the result of raised partitions on the waffle iron.In the United States, waffles are largely a breakfast food, popular enough that a franchised restaurant chain called Waffle House has more than 1,000 restaurants in 24 states. In 2001, it claimed to have sold more than 442 million waffles in the previous 46 years.
A popular variant is the so-called Belgian Waffle, which is lighter and taller than standard waffles and is often served with ice cream, as a dessert. The Belgian Waffle was introduced into North America during the 1964 New York World's Fair.
- See also: pancake
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Waffle."
Synonyms: WaffleSynonyms: hesitate (v), waver (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Changeableness | Verb: fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble, turn and turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute); oscillate; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes; alternate; have as man phases as the moon. |
Food | Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut. |
Furnace | Noun: furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth, focus, combustion chamber; athanor, hypocaust, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; muffle furnace, induction furnace; electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat. |
Qualification | Waffle, quibble, hem and haw (be uncertain); equivocate (sophistry). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Waffle |
| English words defined with "waffle": Belgian waffle. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "waffle": Gopher. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Waffle" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (waffle), Portuguese (waffle). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Homer, that's not God. That's just a waffle that Bart tossed up there (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I heated a whole house with a blow dryer and and a waffle iron (Cedric the Entertainer Presents; writing credit: Charles Peattie; Mark Warren) Get me some lighter fluid, a waffle iron, and one of Dewey's stuffed animals, the furrier the better (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) This from a woman with a Hello Kitty waffle iron (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Lyrics | I want you smothered want you covered like my Waffle House hashbrowns (The Bad Touch; performing artist: Bloodhound Gang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Waffle (1998) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Two Girls Waffle House. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Waffle Shop on 10th Street. Exterior of Waffle Shop with neon sign I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Electric Institute of Washington. Woman cleaning waffle iron. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Bill Hicks | I was in Nashville, Tennesee last year, after the show I went to a Waffle House, I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me, "Tch tch tch tch. Hey, what you readin' for?" |
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| "Waffle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.06% of the time. "Waffle" is used about 72 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 68.06% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 23.61% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.56% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.78% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 72 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "waffle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Waffle | Last name | 170 | 48,757 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "waffle": belgian waffle ♦ crisp waffle ♦ waffle iron. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "waffle": waffle-irons, waffle-maker, waffle-textured. | |
Ending with "waffle": euro-waffle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "waffle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pite (fritter, johnny-cake, mill cake, troche), llomotit (prate, splutter), llomotis (blab, cackle, clack, gab, jabber, prate, splutter), llafe (blah, claptrap, comment, gab, hassle, jaw, scuttlebutt, taradiddle, tattle, tittle tattle), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, wish-wash), dëngla (tommyrot, tosh). (various references) | |
Arabic | كعكة الوفل, كعكة بالفواكه, كعكة بالشوكلاتة, رغا في الكلام, بسكويت الوفل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бъбря безсмислици, пиша безсмислици, дрънкам глупости (blither, burble, piffle, talk through one's hat, yammer). (various references) | |
Chinese | 奶蛋烘饼. (various references) | |
Czech | vata (absorbent cotton wool, cotton wool), vafle, tlachat (blab, cackle, chatter, gas, jaw, palaver, talk, tittle tattle, yap), tlachání (cackle, gab, gas, palaver, talk, twaddle), psát celé romány, oplatka (wafer), lívanec (crumpet, griddle cake, griddlecake, pancake, slap jack, slapjack), žvanit (babble, blab, burble, cackle, gabble, gas, natter, palaver, pettifog, piffle, prate, prattle, rattle, spout, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, yap), žvanìní (cackle, chatter, chitchat, claptrap, double talk, flapdoodle, flubdub, gab, gas, piffle, prate, prattle, rigmarole, tattle, twaddle, wind), štìbetat (cackle, chatter), štìbetání (chirrup, twitter). (various references) | |
Danish | vaffel (wafer). (various references) | |
Dutch | wafel (nut washer, slice, wafer, washer), oblie. (various references) | |
Esperanto | vaflo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | vafla. (various references) | |
Farsi | کلوچه شده درقالب های دوپارچه اهنی . (various references) | |
Finnish | vohveli (wafer). (various references) | |
French | gaufre. (various references) | |
German | Waffel (cornet, wafer, waffles). (various references) | |
Greek | γκοφρέτα (wafer), φλυαρώ (babble, blabber, chatter, gab, gabble, gibber, gossip, jabber, palaver, prate, rattle away, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, yammer, yap, yatter), τηγανίτα (crumpet, fritter, griddlecake, muffin, pancake, slap jack). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"בר שטויות (blah blah, drivel, talk through ones hat), לביב" מתוק", חמיט" (pancake). (various references) | |
Hungarian | waffle, amerikai palacsinta, édes ostya. (various references) | |
Italian | cialda (wafer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ワット時 (coat of arms, crest, varnish, wallaby, warrant, watt hour). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ワッフル . (various references) | |
Manx | keeak oalanagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | affleway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | waffle, folhado (foliate), falar sem cessar, falar pelos cotovelos (gab), coscorão. (various references) | |
Romanian | vafelã (wafer). (various references) | |
Russian | вафля (wafer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta kolača (brownie, muffin), blebetati (gab, palter), blebetanje (patter). (various references) | |
Spanish | gofre. (various references) | |
Swedish | våffla, svamla (twaddle). (various references) | |
Turkish | saçmalamak (blah blah, blather, blether, drivel, drool, flap, gab, gas, piffle, rave, rot, talk nonsense, talk through one's hat, talk wild, twaddle, yap), saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, whacky), gevelemek (hum and haw, mumble, stutter), gözleme (monitor, observation, observing, watch, watching), boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, gab, galimatias, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, routine, small talk, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, wind, wishy-wash). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тип (bloke, cast, character, denomination, exemplar, model, perisher, phylum, type), вафля (wafer), важке завдання, базікати (babble, blab, blather, burble, cackle, chatter, chin, clatter, expatiate, footle, gab, gabble, gossip, haver, jabber, natter, parleyvoo, piffle, prate, spiel, tattle, tittle tattle, twitter, wag, wiggle-waggle, yak, yak-yak, yarn), базікання (babble, babbling, blab, blather, blether, bunkum, burble, cackle, chatter, chit chat, clatter, flubdub, gabble, gossip, jabber, piffle, prate, spiel, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, tootle, twaddle, twitter, wind, yak-yak), двозначна заява. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chuyện liến thoắng, bánh quế chuyện gẫu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Dutch | 700-Modern | wafel. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "waffle": waffled, waffler, wafflers, waffles, wafflestomper, wafflestompers. (additional references) | |
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"Waffle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caffell, Daffley, saffle, wafel, waff, waffie, woffle, wuffle, yaffle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "waffle" (pronounced wÄ"ful) |
| 4 | -Ä" f u l | awful, falafel. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-l-w" | |
-2 letters: alef, feal, flaw, flea, flew, leaf, waff, wale, weal. | |
-3 letters: aff, ale, awe, awl, eff, elf, few, law, lea, wae. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, aw, ef, el, fa, la, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-l-w" | |
+1 letter: waffled, waffler, waffles. | |
+2 letters: wafflers. | |
+3 letters: safflower. | |
+4 letters: foamflower, safflowers. | |
+5 letters: foamflowers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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