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Meanings of waffling in English

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Slicing that leaves a corrugated surface, done with corrugated knives or mandoline blades.

        Spanish
        vacilación

        Stop or pause before a decision or action, due to uncertainty or doubt.

            vacilación
            Usage of waffling in English
            1
            Our ability to predict that effect is very limited, Tillerson replied, waffling.
            Wired
            2
            Then she gets the sap factor under control and realizes: He's waffling.
            Snow Crash
            3
            Many insurers are waffling over where to sell insurance plans in 2018.
            Reuters
            4
            Janet felt a surge of excitement-ifhe was waffling, she had him.
            Our little secret
            5
            She sipped hers like a bird, then started waffling like a madwoman.
            NS13 Zero Hour (2010)
            6
            Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has accused her of waffling on trade.
            Reuters
            7
            Besides, it would just be... He made a waffling motion with his hand.
            Skin Trade
            8
            She was waffling away in Russian as we approached the multi-storey.
            NS13 Zero Hour (2010)
            9
            He, too, was waffling away at warp speed into his mobile.
            Exit wound
            10
            Holly suspected that he had been waffling to hide his anxiety.
            Artemis Fowl: the time paradox
            11
            They were waffling about football and, of course, I'd been way off the mark.
            NS13 Zero Hour (2010)
            12
            Another political flashpoint has been the administration's waffling over proposed changes to biofuels policy.
            Reuters
            13
            Then, just when I needed him most, Horatio stopped waffling.
            NS13 Zero Hour (2010)
            14
            There was a lot of waffling at the tribunal yesterday.
            The Irish Times
            15
            But I was just waffling, trying not to think about being alone with Eric.
            All together dead
            16
            They were close, so close, the go-betweens said, but apparently Edwards was still waffling.
            Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
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            Translations for waffling
            Waffling through the time