waffle
意味
- ワッフル(格子形の刻み目の付いた卵入り薄焼きのケーキ;おもに朝食用)
- どっちつかずのことをする
- むだ口をたたく《+on》
- むだ口,軽口
例文
She got tired of his waffling and dumped him.
あいつは優柔不断だから、彼女が愛想尽かしちゃったんだよ。
Yesterday morning I ate a waffle.
昨日の朝は、ワッフルを食べました。
I recommend giving it to them straight, don't waffle your way around the subject.
奥歯に物の挟まった言い方をせず、ズバリ直球で言ってあげる事をお勧めします。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The noun is borrowed from Dutch wafel (“waffle; wafer”), from Middle Dutch wafel, wafele, wavel, from Old Dutch *wāvila, from Proto-Germanic *wēbilǭ, *wēbilō, possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”) (whence Dutch weven (“to weave”) and English weave; compare, from the same verbal root, German Wabe (“honeycomb”), given that the grid pattern of the traditional Dutch lent and holiday pastry strikingly resembles a honeycomb), and possibly reinforced by German Waffel (“waffle; wafer”). The English word is a doublet of wafer and gauffre.