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waffle iron en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A cooking appliance, with hinged, indented metal plates, used to make waffles.
   • I remember once of buying a waffle-iron of him, and when I tried it and found it did not make a pretty pattern on the waffles, I took it back to him to change it: but having no other pattern, he returned me the money as soon as I asked him. 1841 August 20, Miss Leslie, “Mr. Smith”, in The Ladies' Garland, volume 5, number 2, page 36:
   • These batter-based flat cakes gained a new form of popularity in America when Thomas Jefferson returned from his stint in France as a diplomat. In 1789 he presented his friends with a long-handled waffle iron. 2011, Ann Treistman, Who Put the Devil in Deviled Eggs?: The Fascinating Stories Behind America's Favorite Foods:
   • Such a one is very apt to leave his impress upon his scholars, as the waffle-iron is impressed upon the cake that is baked in it. 1838, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Fireside Education, page 331:

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Synonyms

waffle maker

Translations (30)

nb vaffeljern (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · yi וואַפֿליעניצע (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · eo vaflofero (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · fi vohvelirauta (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · es guafleadora (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · fr moule à gaufres (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · pdt Wofeliesa (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · es waflero (Chila) (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · fr gaufrier (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · ja ワッフルメーカー (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · es waflera (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · nl wafelijzer (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · es wafflera (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · vo vaefafer (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · es gofrera (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · nn vaffeljarn (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · el βαφλιέρα (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · sv våffeljärn (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · is vöfflujárn (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · ko 와플기 (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · de Waffeleisen (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · yi וואַפֿליע־אײַזן (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · es guaflera (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · et vahvliraud (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · io vaflomuldilo (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · nn vaffeljern (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · pl gofrownica (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · ru ва́фельница (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · da vaffeljern (a cooking appliance used to make waffles) · bg гофретник (a cooking appliance used to make waffles)