waffle
suomi-englanti sanakirjawaffle englannista suomeksi
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Substantiivi
waffle englanniksi
(senseid) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
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''In full'' potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at angles to each other on its underside.
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To smash (something).
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1997, Bill Conlin, Kevin Kerrane (editor), ''"Batting cleanup, Bill Conlin"'', page 121:
- These were not the Cowboys who were waffled, 45–14, here at mid-season. They came prepared to play a championship football game, with an ultra-conservative game plan suited to the horrendous turf conditions, and came close to pulling it off ...
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Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
Of an aircraft or vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
(senseid) To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
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''Often followed by'' on: to speak or write (something) length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
{{quote-book|en|year=1976|author=Tony Hatch|title=So you want to be in the music business|publisher=Everest Books|page=68
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{{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Bill Condon|title=No Worries|publisher=Univ. of Queensland Press|page=78
{{quote-book|en|year=2006|author=Carl Storm|title=A Mighty Fine Way to Live and Die|publisher=Backstrap Ltd|page=8
To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
{{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Michael Koryta|title=Sorrow’s Anthem|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-312-93660-0|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=VgSswiePmHcC&pg=PA146|page=146
(Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
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