verb (printers’).—To talk incessantly, CLACK (q.v.), JAW (q.v.): at Durham School = to talk nonsense. [Cf. prov. Eng. WAFFLE = to bark, to yelp.]
1888. Daily Telegraph, 3 March. Out they went into the bleak bitterness, the dogs running before them, and, as the people say, WAFFLING—that is, snuffing and whining—in their eagerness to get on.
