Noun: waffle
| Singular | waffle |
| Plural | waffles |
Sample Sentences
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The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.
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This takeaway counter serves up some of Hong Kong's best eggettes, the egg-shaped waffles beloved by local children and adults alike. [2017, Piera Chen, Emily Matchar, Lonely Planet Pocket Hong Kong:]
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Both joists and slab are cast in place to form a monolithic unit, integral with the supporting beams and columns. The joists form a characteristic waffle pattern on the underside. Structural design of joist construction: one-way or waffle flat slab […] [1970, Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute, Manual of Standard Practice:]
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The most widely used type of waffle construction is the waffle flat slab, in which solid portions around column supports are […] These beams may be produced as projections below the waffle, as shown […] [1993, Harry Parker, James Ambrose, Simplified Engineering for Architects and Builders:]
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In one-way (pan joist) and two-way (waffle) joist construction, a similar layout is usually adopted. [2008, Edward G. Nawy, Concrete Construction Engineering Handbook, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 9:]
Nouns inflected like waffle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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.
2. The verb (“to smash”) derives from the manner in which batter is pressed into the shape of a waffle between the two halves of a waffle iron. See: Dutch Nouns '
wafel', English Nouns '
weave', German Nouns '
Wabe', German Nouns '
Waffel'.
Verbs referencing "waffle"
German Nouns
Waffel, French Nouns
gaufre, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
vaffel.