waffle

waffle
    n 1: pancake batter baked in a waffle iron
    v 1: pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness;
         "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures" [syn:
         {hesitate}, {waver}, {waffle}]
    

Waffle \Waffle\, n. [D. wafel. See {Wafer}.]
   1. A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.
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   2. A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.
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   {Waffle iron}, an iron utensil or mold made in two parts
      shutting together, -- used for cooking waffles over a
      fire.
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73 Moby Thesaurus words for "waffle":
      babble, back and fill, blab, blabber, blather, blether, blintz,
      buckwheat cake, bull, bullshit, chat, chatter, cheese blintz,
      clack, clatter, crepe, dither, dodge, drivel, drool, duck,
      equivocate, evade, flapcake, flapjack, gab, gabble, gas, gibber,
      gibble-gabble, go on, gossip, griddlecake, gush, haver,
      hem and haw, hot cake, hum and haw, jabber, jaw, mince the truth,
      mince words, natter, palacsinta, palaver, palter, pancake, parry,
      patter, piffle, pour forth, prate, prattle, prevaricate, ramble on,
      rattle, rattle on, reel off, run on, sidestep, spout, spout off,
      talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, tergiversate, tittle-tattle,
      twaddle, twattle, vapor, weasel, yak, yakkety-yak