I recommend giving it to them straight, don't waffle your way around the subject.
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Waffle
//ˈwɒf.l̩//
Synonyms for "waffle" (164 found)
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Closest matches (33)
Strong matches (49)
Related words (82)
Verb(28 words)
Noun(13 words)
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Translations
103 translations across 42 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- վաֆլի noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Belarusian
1 entries- ва́фля noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Bulgarian
4 entries- гофрѐта noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- картофена гофрета noun (savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern)
- шикалкавене noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- бъбря verb (to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point — see also ramble)
Catalan
1 entries- gofra noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 格仔餅 /格仔饼 noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 窩夫 /窝夫 noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- 華夫 /华夫 noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- 鬆餅 /松饼 noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Czech
1 entries- vafle noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Danish
1 entries- vaffel noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Dutch
4 entries- gezwam noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- wafel noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- wollige taal noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- zwammen verb (to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point — see also ramble)
Esperanto
1 entries- vaflo noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Estonian
2 entries- loba noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- vahvel noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Finnish
3 entries- jaarittelu noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- jaaritus noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- vohveli noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
French
2 entries- gaufre noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- langue de bois noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
German
4 entries- Geschwafel noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- Waffel noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- leere Phrasen noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- gemächlich dahingleiten verb (of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner)
Greek
1 entries- βάφλα noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Hindi
2 entries- डगमगाना verb (to speak or write evasively or vaguely)
- हड़बड़ाना verb (to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point — see also ramble)
Hungarian
4 entries- duma noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- gofri noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- halandzsa noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- hanta noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
Icelandic
3 entries- bull noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- vaffla noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- þvaður noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
Ido
1 entries- vaflo noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Indonesian
1 entries- wafel noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Irish
1 entries- vaiféal noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Italian
2 entries- ferratella noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- blaterare ciarlare cianciare verb (to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point — see also ramble)
Japanese
3 entries- むだ口 noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- ワッフル noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- ごちゃごちゃ言う verb (to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point — see also ramble)
Khmer
1 entries- នំពុម្ព noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Korean
2 entries- 거만한 말 noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- 와플 noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Eisekuch noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- Gaufre noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Macedonian
1 entries- вафла noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Malay
1 entries- wafel noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Māori
3 entries- waha hakirara noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- hākirikiri verb (to speak or write evasively or vaguely)
- waha hakirara verb (to speak or write evasively or vaguely)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- vaffel noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- vaffel noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Wofel noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Polish
2 entries- gofr noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- wodolejstwo noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
Portuguese
4 entries- palha noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- palrança noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- palração noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- waffle noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Russian
4 entries- ва́фля noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- болта́ть по́пусту verb (to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point — see also ramble)
- лить во́ду verb (to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point — see also ramble)
- трепа́ться без то́лку verb (to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point — see also ramble)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- vafl noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Spanish
4 entries- gofre noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- guafle noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- waffle noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- wafle noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Swedish
1 entries- våffla noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ва́фля noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Walloon
1 entries- wåfe noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Welsh
3 entries- waffl noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
- waffl noun ((often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious)
- wafflo verb (to speak or write evasively or vaguely)
Yiddish
1 entries- וואַפֿליע noun (flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern)
Sample sentences
30 total sentences available.
Grease the waffle maker.
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Yesterday morning I ate a waffle!
Source: tatoeba (834789)
He doled out the waffle batter with a large soup spoon.
Source: tatoeba (2006001)
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