waffle

1. A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern.

   The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.

2. A potato waffle, a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.

verb

To smash.

1. Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive.

   This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle.

1. (of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. Cf wiffle, whiffle.

   The geese waffled as they approached the water.

2. To speak or write vaguely and evasively.
3. To speak or write at length without any clear point or aim.
4. To vacillate.
5. To rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of vacillation or ambivalence.