Meaning of waffley | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of waffly.
2. Characterized by the presence of waffle (vague speech).
3. Resembling or characteristic of waffles.

Examples

“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.”

““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!””

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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,. . .”

“The Norton 3 has a descriptive ‘Performance Comment’ in the digital edition and a waffley summary in the print version, ‘It is not clear from Shakespeare’s text how Isabella responds to the Duke’s proposal of marriage’. Is this equity, or cowardice?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.””

“Katrina spread butter and syrup with liberal abandon, then forked several squares of butter- and maple-syrup-laden waffley goodness into her mouth and closed her eyes in bliss.”

“After a moment of comfortable silence, with Ben tenderly rubbing his thumb gently over the back of her hand, he asked, “So what do you want to do now that you’re all stuffed full of waffley goodness?””

“Grab a seat for some top-notch extemporaneous shenanigans of all flavors – A Bedtime Gorey, Available Cupholders, Get Up, Squirrel Buddies, Known Wizards, The Frank Mills, All-Star Maestro, and many more – while munching on plate after plate of golden waffley goodness.”

“The first set of waffles was done. He put down his coffee and popped open the heavy iron griddle on the stove. Waffley goodness. Crisp golden circles with square indentations and a hint of darker color around the outside.”

““We were rudely interrupted by an earthquake,” Macey mumbled. The world really had it out for her. Every time she got close to eating some delicious waffley goodness, fate cruelly snatched that chance away.”

“When I was four years old, I woke my dad up with a simple but dead-serious request: waffles, please! I have been a Leslie Knope–level waffle fanatic since I knew what they were called, and, while Mom was putting in a twelve-hour shift at the hospital that Saturday morning, my hankering for waffley goodness was my wake-up call (and consequently, my dad’s too).”

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