Chicken vs Waffle - What's the difference?
chicken | waffle |
(countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus , especially when young
(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
(countable, slang) A coward.
(countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Compare chickenhawk
(countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
* 1887 , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet , III:
* Jonathan Swift
A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (, the loser.)
The game of dare.
To avoid as a result of fear.
To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.
(countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern.
(countable, UK) A , a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
To smash.
* 1995 , Peter Allen David, The Incredible Hulk: What savage beast :
* 1997 , Bill Conlin, Kevin Kerrane (editor), "Batting cleanup, Bill Conlin" , page 121:
* 2005 , Shawn Michaels, with Aaron Feigenbaum, Heartbreak & Triumph: The Shawn Michaels Story , Page 47:
* 2006 , Gordon Forbes, Tales from the Eagles Sideline (updated edition), page 2:
(uncountable) Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive.
To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. wiffle'', ''whiffle .
To speak or write vaguely and evasively.
* 1970 , John Galloway, The Gulf of Tonkin resolution , page 115:
To speak or write at length without any clear point or aim.
* 1976 Tony Hatch, So you want to be in the music business, Everest Books, p68
* 1984 "Apiary Antics- No.5," British bee journal , Volumes 112-113, p68
* 2005 Bill Condon, No Worries, Univ. of Queensland Press, p78
* 2006 Carl Storm, A Mighty Fine Way to Live and Die, Backstrap Ltd, p8
To vacillate.
To rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of vacillation or ambivalence.
* 2007 , Michael Koryta, Sorrow’s Anthem , Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-312-93660-0,
As a proper noun chicken
is a cdp in alaska.As a noun waffle is
(countable) a flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern or waffle can be (uncountable) speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive.As a verb waffle is
to smash or waffle can be to move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing wiffle'', ''whiffle .chicken
English
(wikipedia chicken) (Gallus gallus) (Gallus gallus)Noun
- "This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken ."
- Stella is no chicken .
- Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
Synonyms
* (bird) cock (male only), chook , hen (female only), rooster (male only) * (coward) * twink * (young inexperienced person) spring chicken * See alsoDerived terms
* chicken and egg * chicken feed * chicken fillet * chickenhawk * chicken Kiev * chickenpox * chicken salt * chickenshit * like a chicken with its head cut off * like a chicken with the pip * play chicken * run around like a chicken with its head cut off * spring chickenVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* chicken out * chicken legsSee also
* egg * poultry * cockerel * henwaffle
English
Etymology 1
The (etyl) word wafel was adopted into English in the 1700s. The Dutch word, in turn, derives from the (etyl) w?fel]]'' (modern German ''Waffel''), which was borrowed into Middle English around 1377 as ''wafer'', and which is also the source of the French ''gaufre''. ''[[wafel, W?fel'', in turn, derives from the Old High German ''waba'', ''wabo'' (modern German ''Wabe''), meaning ''honeycomb'' and ultimately related to the word ''weave . The verb sense "to smash" derives from the manner in which waffle-batter is smashed into its shape between the two halves of a waffle iron, and the sense "to press a waffle pattern into" derives from the pattern the waffle-iron-halves impart.Noun
(en noun)- The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.
Derived terms
* waffled * waffle ironExternal links
* (wikipedia "waffle")Verb
(waffl)- 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.
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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.
Etymology 2
From the (etyl) ''woof ). Also note (etyl) .Noun
(-)- This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle .
Synonyms
* seeVerb
(waffl)- 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.
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