waffle — OAT · Shobdo

waffle British, informal

verb

they were waffling on about the baby:

prattle, chatter, babble, ramble, jabber, gibber, gabble, gab, burble, run on, mutter, mumble, prate, drivel, bleat, cackle;

British hum and haw;

informal blather;

British, informal rabbit, witter, natter, flannel.

noun

my panic reduced the interview to waffle:

prattle, jabbering, verbiage, drivel, meaningless talk, nonsense, twaddle, gibberish, stuff and nonsense, bunkum, mumbo jumbo, padding, verbosity, prolixity;

informal hot air, poppycock, tripe, bosh, bunk, blah, hogwash, eyewash, gobbledygook, tommyrot, guff;

British, informal rot, wittering, flannel;

US, informal bellywash;

rare logorrhea.