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In Australia (and also, I think, the UK) to "waffle" means to talk at length about fuck all. It also applies to writing (a student might fill a one thousand word essay with waffle), and can be either a verb (The chairman waffled for half an hour and put the board to sleep) or as a noun (His intolerable waffle put me to sleep).
Interesting that it popped up here.
Here in the good ol' US as well.
Main Entry: waffle
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): waf·fled; waf·fling /-f(&-)li[ng]/
Etymology: frequentative of obsolete woff to yelp, of imitative origin
Date: 1868
1 : EQUIVOCATE, VACILLATE; also : YO-YO, FLIP-FLOP
2 : to talk or write foolishly : BLATHER
- waf·fler /-f(&-)l&r/ noun
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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.