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Tilde <invalide@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>> On 2024-04-25, Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>> 
>>> AHD (American, ca.1970) has neither -- no verb "waffle".
>> 
>> AHD (5th ed., 2022) is online.
>> https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=waffle
>> 1. To be unable to make a decision; waver
>> 2. To speak or write evasively
>> 
>>> I can't make M-W work on this machine; so awaiting information on its
>>> current status in the USA,
>> 
>> M-W.com also lists both meanings.
> 
> 
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waffle
> waffle
> 2 of 3
> verb
> waffled; waffling ˈwä-f(ə-)liŋ  ˈwȯ-
> intransitive verb
> 1
>> EQUIVOCATE, VACILLATE
> waffled on the important issues
> also : YO-YO, FLIP-FLOP
> 2

To me those two would mean to have different opinions according to the time
of the day, or to how the wind blows.