Definition of "waffley"
waffley
adjective
comparative more waffley, superlative most waffley
Resembling or characteristic of waffles.
Quotations
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.
1966 September 20, “Sandwich Idea”, in Lincoln Evening Journal and Nebraska State Journal, 99th year, number 225, Lincoln, Neb., page 10
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.
1971 March, General Electric, “Now that you know how to iron, what about…”, in Mademoiselle, New York, N.Y.: The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
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.
2000, Nicolyn Rajala, Some Like It Hot: The Sauna, Its Lore and Stories, St. Cloud, Minn.: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., published 2008, page 29
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.”
2013, Richard Cahill, “[Taking Care of Business] Waffle House of Pain”, in It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time for Lesbians and Abortionists, Rockford, Ill.: Sweatshoppe Publications, page 104
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.
2013, C.L. Wilson [pseudonym; Cheryl Wilson], “Upon a Midnight”, in One Enchanted Season: A Collection of Magical Holiday Romance, page 42
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?”
2013, Victoria J. Hyla, Running in the Mists (Hearts Drawn Wyld Trilogy; 2), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, page 300
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.
2013 November 22, “Listings”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 33, number 13, Austin, Tex.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, page 66, column 4
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.
2017, A.R. Barley, chapter 22, in On Duty (Smoke & Bullets), Toronto, Ont.: Carina Press, Harlequin Enterprises
“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.
2017–2020, Laura Greenwood, Skye MacKinnon, Seven Wardens: The Complete Collection, Peryton Press
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).
2019, Emilie Aries, Bossed Up: A Grown Woman’s Guide to Getting Your Sh*t Together, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs
Quotations
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.
1984, Status of the Air Traffic Control System (98-83): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First and Second Sessions, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 1362
“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!”
1985, Sue Garnett, The Ponies of Swallowdale Farm, Basingstoke, Hants: Pickering Paperbacks, page 113
Well, if you remember the 1960 [Democratic national] convention, apparently, he waffled or appeared to be a "waffley" kind of governor.
1989, Carlos Vásquez, quoting John A. FitzRandolph, Oral History Interview with John A. FitzRandolph (California State Archives, State Government Oral History Program), Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California, Los Angeles, page 43
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,. .
2001, Noel Entwistle, Velda McCune, Paul Walker, quoting a student, “Conceptions, Styles, and Approaches Within Higher Education: Analytical Abstractions and Everyday Experience”, in Robert J. Sternberg, Li-fang Zhang, editors, Perspectives on Thinking, Learning, and Cognitive Styles, Mahwah, N.J., London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, page 120
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?
2018, Suzanne Gossett, “When is a Missing Stage Direction Missing?”, in Sarah Dustagheer, Gillian Woods, editors, Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre, London: The Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, published 2019, page 159