| 单词 | waffle |
| 释义 | waffle (once / 5895 pages) 1n 2v You might think of a waffle as a grid-patterned pancake-like food that's tasty with syrup, and you'd be right. But the word is also a verb that means to avoid making a definitive decision. The verb waffle seems to have its origins in the 1690s as the word waff, "to yelp," possibly in imitation of the yelping of dogs. The word soon came to mean "to talk foolishly" and then eventually "to vacillate, to change." The food term waffle, as part of "waffle iron," appeared in 1794, a descendant of the Dutch word wafel, which comes from the same Germanic source as weave: it's easy to see the waffle pattern as similar to a woven fabric. WORD FAMILYwaffle: waffled, waffler, waffles, waffling+/waffler: wafflers USAGE EXAMPLES“At first he promised to send back every illegal immigrant. Now he is waffling on that.” The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) Howard said they see a close parallel in the Eggo waffle shortage of 2009, which deprived consumers of the frozen breakfast food for several months. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) He ends, by way of an excuse, with a corny dollop of patriotic waffle, an inspiring speech clearly half-cribbed from some star-splattered disaster movie. Slate(Dec 16, 2016) 1 n pancake batter baked in a waffle iron 2Hypo|Hyper Belgian waffle thick sweet waffle often eaten with ice cream or fruit sauce cake baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat v pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness Syn|Hypo hesitate, waver dwell on, linger over delay bogglehesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear hover, lingermove to and fro hover, oscillate, vacillate, vibratebe undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action falter, waverbe unsure or weak shillyshallybe uncertain and vague |
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