English Dictionary: waffle | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wabble \Wab"ble\ (w[ocr]b"b'l), v. i. [Cf. Prov. G. wabbeln to wabble, and E. whap. Cf. {Quaver}.] To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles. | |
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Wabble \Wab"ble\, n. A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro. | |
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Wabbly \Wab"bly\, a. Inclined to wabble; wabbling. | |
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Waffle \Waffle\, n. [D. wafel. See {Wafer}.] 1. A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer. 2. A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron. {Waffle iron}, an iron utensil or mold made in two parts shutting together, -- used for cooking waffles over a fire. | |
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Waybill \Way"bill`\, n. A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading. | |
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Weepful \Weep"ful\, a. Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving. [Obs.] --Wyclif. | |
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Weevil \Wee"vil\, n. [OE. wivel, wevil, AS. wifel, wibil; akin to OD. wevel, OHG. wibil, wibel, G. wiebel, wibel, and probably to Lith. vabalas beetle, and E. weave. See {Weave}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larv[91] of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under {Plum}, {Nut}, and {Grain}). The larv[91] of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under {Pine}). See also {Pea weevil}, {Rice weevil}, {Seed weevil}, under {Pea}, {Rice}, and {Seed}. | |
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Weevily \Wee"vil*y\, a. Having weevils; weeviled. [Written also {weevilly}.] | |
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Weevily \Wee"vil*y\, a. Having weevils; weeviled. [Written also {weevilly}.] | |
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Wevil \We"vil\, n. See {Weevil}. | |
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Whiffle \Whif"fle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Whiffled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Whiffling}.] [Freq. of whiff to puff, perhaps influenced by D. weifelen to waver.] 1. To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about. --D[?]mpier. 2. To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle. | |
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Whiffle \Whif"fle\, v. t. 1. To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. 2. To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle. | |
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Whiffle \Whif"fle\, n. A fife or small flute. [Obs.] --Douce. | |
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Whip-poor-will \Whip"-poor-will`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An American bird ({Antrostomus vociferus}) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the peculiar notes which it utters in the evening. [Written also {whippowil}.] | |
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Wifely \Wife"ly\, a. [AS. w[c6]flic.] Becoming or life; of or pertaining to a wife. [bd]Wifely patience.[b8] --Chaucer. With all the tenderness of wifely love. --Dryden. | |
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Wively \Wive"ly\, a. Wifely. [Obs.] --Udall. | |
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Wobble \Wob"ble\, v. i. See {Wabble}. | |
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Woeful \Woe"ful\, Woful \Wo"ful\, a. 1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace! --Daniel. 2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want. O woeful day! O day of woe! --Philips. 3. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! --Pope. | |
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Woefully \Woe"ful*ly\, Wofully \Wo"ful*ly\, adv. In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully. | |
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Woeful \Woe"ful\, Woful \Wo"ful\, a. 1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace! --Daniel. 2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want. O woeful day! O day of woe! --Philips. 3. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! --Pope. | |
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Woefully \Woe"ful*ly\, Wofully \Wo"ful*ly\, adv. In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully. | |
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Woofell \Woo"fell\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The European blackbird. [bd]The woofell near at hand that hath a golden bill.[b8] --Drayton. | |
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Wapella, IL (village, FIPS 78773) Location: 40.22133 N, 88.96171 W Population (1990): 608 (238 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61777 | |
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Wapello, IA (city, FIPS 82200) Location: 41.17836 N, 91.18879 W Population (1990): 2013 (857 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52653 | |
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Weaubleau, MO (city, FIPS 78064) Location: 37.89161 N, 93.54078 W Population (1990): 436 (249 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65774 | |
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Webbville, KY Zip code(s): 41180 | |
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Whipple, OH Zip code(s): 45788 | |
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Wyeville, WI (village, FIPS 89275) Location: 44.02769 N, 90.38580 W Population (1990): 154 (64 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54660 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
weeble /weeb'l/ interj. [Cambridge] Used to denote frustration, usually at amazing stupidity. "I stuck the disk in upside down." "Weeble...." Compare {gurfle}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
wibble [UK, perh. originally from the first "Roger Irrelevant" strip in "VIZ" comics] 1. n.,v. Commonly used to describe chatter, content-free remarks or other essentially meaningless contributions to threads in newsgroups. "Oh, rspence is wibbling again". 2. [UK IRC] An explicit on-line no-op equivalent to {humma}. 3. One of the preferred {metasyntactic variable}s in the UK, forming a series with `wobble', `wubble', and `flob' (attributed to the hilarious historical comedy "Blackadder"). 4. A pronounciation of the letters "www", as seen in URLs; i.e., www.{foo}.com may be pronounced "wibble dot foo dot com" (compare {dub dub dub}). The ancestral sense of this word is reported to have been "My brain is packing it in now. I give up. _Tilt! Tilt! Tilt!_" | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
WAFL WArwick Functional Language. Warwick U, England. LISP-like. | |
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Weeble /wee'b*l/ An egg-shaped plastic toy person with a weight in the bottom so that, if tipped over, they would right themselves and stand up again. They were popular in the UK during the 1970s and were famous for the slogan "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down", unlike some computers (pretty tenuous link with computing). (1994-11-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
WFL Work Flow Language. Burroughs, ca 1973. A job control language for the B6700/B7700 under MCP. WFL was a compiled block-structured language similar to ALGOL 60, with subroutines and nested begin-end's. ["Work Flow Management User's Guide", Burroughs Manual 5000714, 1973]. ["Burroughs B6700/B7700 Work Flow Language", R.M. Cowan in "Command Languages", C. Unger ed, N-H 1975]. (1996-01-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
WPL+ Word-oriented language internal to PRODOS Applewriter 2.1. Available on GEnie. |