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   waf·fle

   /ˈwäfəl/

   verb

   • 1. fail to make up one's mind: North American "Joseph had been waffling over where to go"
   • 2. speak or write, especially at great length, without saying anything important or useful: British "he waffled on about everything that didn't matter"

   noun

   • 1. a failure to make up one's mind: North American "saying maybe leaves us squandering our lives in indecisive waffle"
   • 2. lengthy but trivial or useless talk or writing. British

   Word Origin late 17th century (originally in the sense ‘yap, yelp’): frequentative of dialect waff ‘yelp’, of imitative origin.

   Derivatives

   • 1. waffler noun
   • 2. waffly adjective

   Scrabble Points: 15

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