waffle

• 愉快だが無意味な言葉、退屈な言葉。
• vi.たわごと；噂話

語源はweave、knitting、ひいてはhoneycombと同じで、ビスケットの形が蜂の巣状であることから名付けられた。

吠える犬の擬音語。ひいては、バロニー、おしゃべり。

waffle (n.)

"kind of batter-cake, baked crisp in irons and served hot," 1744, from Dutch wafel "waffle," from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German wafel, from Proto-Germanic *wabila- "web, honeycomb" (cognates: Old High German waba "honeycomb," German Wabe), related to Old High German weban, Old English wefan "to weave" (see weave (v.)). Sense of "honeycomb" is preserved in some combinations referring to a weave of cloth. Waffle iron is from 1794.

waffle (v.)

1690s, "to yelp, bark," frequentative of provincial waff "to yelp, to bark like a puppy" (1610); possibly of imitative origin. Figurative sense of "talk foolishly" (c. 1700) led to that of "vacillate, equivocate" (1803), originally a Scottish and northern English usage. Late 17c. Scottish also had waff "act of waving," variant of waft, which might have influenced the sense. Related: Waffled; waffler; waffling.

1. Whenever I open my mouth I don 't half waffle on.

私はいつ口を開いても、自慢話をしたことがありません。

2.He writes smug，sanctimonious waffle .

彼の書いた満編はすべて自慢で、まじめなくだらないことばかりだ。

3.Cut the waffle and get to the point.

でたらめを言わないで、本題について話してください。

4.That 's all I had to say on the subject-we don 't want to waffle on about it all day.

この問題はこれだけ言いたいだけです。私たちは一日中このために無駄話をしてはいけません。

5.My wife often tells me I waffle .

私の妻はよく私のでたらめを言っています。