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Raffle vs. Waffle

Raffle and Waffle Definitions

Raffle

A lottery in which a number of persons buy chances to win a prize.

Waffle

A light crisp cake made of batter and baked in a waffle iron.

Raffle

Rubbish; debris.

Waffle

Evasive or vague speech or writing.

Raffle

To dispose of in a raffle. Often used with off.

Waffle

To be unable to make a decision; waver
He waffled over whether to ask for a raise.
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Raffle

To conduct or take part in a raffle.

Waffle

To speak or write evasively
"The secretary waffled when she asked to see the dean" (Rita Mae Brown).

Raffle

A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.

Waffle

To speak, write, or act evasively about (something).

Raffle

(obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.

Waffle

A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
The brunch was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.
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Raffle

Refuse; rubbish

Waffle

In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.

Raffle

(transitive) To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.
They raffled off four gift baskets.

Waffle

A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.

Raffle

(intransitive) To participate in a raffle.
To raffle for a watch

Waffle

A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
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Raffle

A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.

Waffle

(colloquial) (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
This interesting point seems to get lost a little within a lot of self-important waffle.

Raffle

A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.

Waffle

The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.

Raffle

Refuse; rubbish; raff.

Waffle

To smash (something).

Raffle

To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.

Waffle

(intransitive) To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
Beat around the bush

Raffle

To dispose of by means of a raffle; - often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.

Waffle

(intransitive) Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
The geese waffled as they approached the water.

Raffle

A lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money

Waffle

Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.

Raffle

Dispose of in a lottery;
We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas

Waffle

To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
Blow hot and cold

Waffle

(ambitransitive) Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.

Waffle

(transitive) To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.

Waffle

Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.

Waffle

A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

Waffle

A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.

Waffle

Pancake batter baked in a waffle iron

Waffle

Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness;
Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures

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