waffle1 /ˈwäfəl, ˈwɑfəl 
/ ▸ verb [no object] 1 North American fail to make up one's mind: Joseph had been waffling over where to go.
2 British speak or write, especially at great length, without saying anything important or useful: he waffled on about everything that didn't matter.
▸ noun 1 North American a failure to make up one's mind: his waffle on abortion.
2 mainly British lengthy but trivial or useless talk or writing. – DERIVATIVES waffler /ˈwäf(ə)lər, ˈwɑf(ə)lər / noun,waffly /ˈwäf(ə)lē, ˈwɑf(ə)li / adjective – ORIGIN late 17th century (originally in the sense ‘yap, yelp’): frequentative of dialect waff ‘yelp’, of imitative origin.
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