waffle
/ˈwɑf.əl/ verb C2- Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing. · The geese waffled as they approached the water.
- Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
- Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
- To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
He/she/it waffles · Past waffled · Past participle waffled · -ing form waffling
Verb forms
- Base form
- waffle
- He/she/it
- waffles
- Past
- waffled
- Past participle
- waffled
- -ing form
- waffling
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