waffle
📖 Definitions
noun
A crisp cake made by baking batter in an appliance with a gridlike pattern.
💬 Usage Examples
“Patrons had paid up to $1875 to hear the big man one last time. [Pavarotti] had been contracted to sing two performances of ‘Tosca’; he arrived in New York, sang the dress rehearsal, and came down with what was described as ‘influenza’. On both nights, he waffled, said no, said yes, then cancelled shortly before the curtain went up.” Alex Ross; Journey’s End; The New Yorker; May 27, 2002. “Brexit was always a bundle of contradictions held together by a shared hostility to the EU and a vague optimism about freedom.
Mr [Boris] Johnson’s taste for waffle and fudge made him the perfect leader of the movement as long as it was about protest.” Tidying Boris Up; The Economist (London, UK); Dec 5, 2020.