waffley

comparative wafflier · superlative waffliest

1. Alternative spelling of waffly.
   1. Characterized by the presence of waffle (vague speech).

      I used to be a bit of a culprit for a waffley essay, that I didn’t actually know that much about what I was writing,. . .

      2001, Noel Entwistle, Velda McCune, Paul Walker, quoting a student, “Conceptions, Styles, and Approaches Within Higher Education: Analytical Abstractions and Everyday Experience”, in Robert J. Sternberg, Li-fang Zhang, editors, Perspectives on Thinking, Learning, and Cognitive Styles, Mahwah, N.J.; London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, page 120

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      Mr. Crouse. Well, Mr. Chairman, I feel that any intelligent and reasonable man would have to answer that question in the affirmative. Mr. Levitas. I would think so, too, but I got sort of a waffley answer earlier today. So I was trying to ask it again.

      1984, Status of the Air Traffic Control System (98-83): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First and Second Sessions, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 1362

      “It is marvellous if someone loves you for just yourself. The trouble is, nobody seems to love me anything like that . . .” / Cassie’s father said quietly, “Nonsense, my dear, we are always loved by God, not in a waffley, airy-fairy sort of way but in a very down-to-earth fashion. It’s accepting that love which most people find hard, just as I suspect that you find it hard accepting your father’s love—or recognising it!”

      1985, Sue Garnett, The Ponies of Swallowdale Farm, Basingstoke, Hants: Pickering Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 113

      Well, if you remember the 1960 [Democratic national] convention, apparently, he waffled or appeared to be a "waffley" kind of governor.

      1989, Carlos Vásquez, quoting John A. FitzRandolph, Oral History Interview with John A. FitzRandolph (California State Archives, State Government Oral History Program), Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California, Los Angeles, page 43

      We write short concise reviews, because there’s nothing more tedious than a waffley piece of writing which takes twenty minutes to get to its point, especially when most people only look at the final verdict anyway.

      1992 June, Ed[itor], “Letters”, in Your Sinclair, number 78, page 23, column 3

      These differences meant that meetings of the Cabinet’s welfare committee have been unproductive, with a brooding Mr Field and a waffley and increasingly prickly Ms Harman.

      1998 August 3, Peter Riddell, “Prisoners of conscience”, in The Times, number 66,270, London, page 18, column 5

   2. Resembling or characteristic of waffles.

      He’d given her a cushion to sleep on, and a waffley baby’s blanket, yellow with a washed-out Cookie Monster appliquéd in one corner.

      2012, Christa Parrish, chapter 6, in The Air We Breathe, Minneapolis, Minn.: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 61

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      Here’s a “waffley” good version of the popular bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich. Prepare prebaked froz­en waffles in toaster or oven according to package direc­tions. Spread each with mayonnaise. Top each waf­fle section with lettuce, a tomato slice and cooked ba­con strips.

      1966 September 20, “Sandwich Idea”, in Lincoln Evening Journal and Nebraska State Journal, 99th year, number 225, Lincoln, Neb., page 10

      Grilled sandwiches. Blueberry [p]ancakes. Sausages and eggs. Turn [t]hem out like you’ve been cook[i]ng for years. In a General Electric grill and waffle [b]aker. The sections reverse [f]rom a waffley surface to a [f]lat one.

      1971 March, General Electric, “Now that you know how to iron, what about…”, in Mademoiselle, New York, N.Y.: The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

      A permanent fixture in that same pocket was a billfold or wallet m the final stages of disintegration. Its covering was a waffley, metal-like substance, gold and silver on reverse sides, that was peeling to bits.

      1997, Mia Farrow, What Falls Away: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Nan A. Talese, →ISBN, page 71

      The bra top, which had what were called “molded plastic cups,” had shriveled and shrunk to a very small size. It left a waffley emaciated look across my entire top.

      2000, Nicolyn Rajala, Some Like It Hot: The Sauna, Its Lore and Stories, St. Cloud, Minn.: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., published 2008, →ISBN, page 29

      The ancient Greeks made waffles? “Tons of ‘em. Ate ‘em by the plateful while they were braining up to invent Western civilization. Aristotle, Plato, Demosthenes, Bucephalus…all of them could wreak havoc on a stack of waffley goodness before you could say “I think, therefore I want more syrup.”

      2013, Richard Cahill, “[Taking Care of Business] Waffle House of Pain”, in It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time for Lesbians and Abortionists, Rockford, Ill.: Sweatshoppe Publications, →ISBN, page 104