Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| espanja | gofre, divagar, wafle, parlotear, guitarrear |
| esperanto | vaflo |
| hollanti | wafel, gezwam, zwammen, geklets |
| italia | cialda, sproloquio, sproloquiare |
| japani | ワッフル (waffuru), むだ口 (mudaguchi), ごちゃごちゃ言う (gochagocha iu) |
| kreikka | βάφλα (váfla) |
| portugali | waffle, palrança, palração, palrar |
| puola | gofr |
| ranska | gaufre, broder, langue de bois, blablater, bavasser |
| ruotsi | våffla, svamla, svammel |
| saksa | Geschwafel, Waffel, leere Phrasen, schwafeln |
| suomi | vohveli, jaaritus, jaarittelu |
| tanska | vaffel, væv |
| tšekki | vafle |
| unkari | gofri, ostya |
| venäjä | вафля (vaflja), лить воду (lit vodu), болтать попусту (boltat popustu), трепаться без толку (trepatsja bez tolku) |
| viro | loba, vahvel |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
- (colloquial) (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
- (British, dialectal) The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
- (countable, British) In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
- (construction, also, attributively) A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
- (textiles, chiefly attributively) A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
Verbi
- (transitive, slang) To smash (something).
- (intransitive) To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
- (intransitive, British, dialectal) Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
- (intransitive) Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
- (intransitive, aviation, road transport, colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
- (intransitive, originally Northern England, Scotland, colloquial) To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
- (ambitransitive) Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
- (transitive) To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
Esimerkit
- The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.
- The cab was waffled in between the two, Marsh never having a prayer or even a full comprehension of what happened to him. He was crushed flat, never even hearing the deafening screech of metal.
- Bednarik, however, says the play became legendary only because of the circumstances. " I did it [...] to the top honcho. He just happened to be there and the pass was thrown to him. I waffled him cleanly." [...] "He just cold-cocked Frank," said linebacker Bob Pellegrini, whose injury sent Bednarik into the game to play defense.
- Then I waffled him and knocked him down. Why I cut myself open with the razor, I'm not completely sure. I was like the idiot in a bar who gets all worked up and smashes a bottle over his head [...]
- These were not the Cowboys who were waffled, 45-14, here at mid-season. They came prepared to play a championship football game, with an ultra-conservative game plan suited to the horrendous turf conditions, and came close to pulling it off [...]
- This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle.
- The geese waffled as they approached the water.
- Again the answer was "waffled," for this did not say that no air units had been alerted. Only that none had been "identified." Moreover, the reply concerned air "unit[s]" as opposed to "air craft".
- Unless you have a great line in gags or repartee don't waffle on aimlessly to your audience, or make in-jokes among yourselves, the band or the compere/DJ.
- Before getting down to the nitty gritty of beekeeping, most contributors to BBJ like to waffle on for a bit about the weather, the state of their garden or something equally inconsequential.
- She waffled on for ages. Usually I'd say something smart or make it obvious that I wasn't interested and couldn't be bothered listening.
- The whole thing ended suddenly when the hotel manager arrived. He waffled on for a bit; this settled everyone down.
- He waffles between loving the movie and hating it, depending on who's asking.
- “[...] You get anything useful on the background checks?” ¶ He waffled his hand. “Nothing like what you brought back, but still some interesting notes. [...]”
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | waffled |
| Imperfekti | waffled |
| Partisiipin preesens | waffling |
| Monikko | waffles |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | waffles |