English Dictionary

waffle

/ˈwɒfl/

verb

(intransitive) To speak or write evasively or vaguely. / (intransitive) Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.

I love to waffle on about my favorite books.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To speak or write evasively or vaguely.

Again the answer was waffled, for this did not say that no air units had been alerted. Only that none had been identified. Moreover, the reply concerned air unit[s] as opposed to air craft.

意味（2）

(intransitive) Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.

The geese waffled as they approached the water.

意味（3）

(intransitive, aviation, road transport, colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.

意味（4）

(intransitive, originally Northern England, Scotland, colloquial) To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.

I waffled between going to the deposition and going to the doctor's. Wishing Barbara was there, I decided to call the doctor afterward.

意味（5）

(transitive, intransitive) Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.

Unless you have a great line in gags or repartee don't waffle on aimlessly to your audience, or make in-jokes among yourselves, the band or the compere/DJ.

意味（6）

(transitive) To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.

“ […] You get anything useful on the background checks?” / He waffled his hand. “Nothing like what you brought back, but still some interesting notes. […]”