a cappella vs waffle

a cappella

noun
  • A vocal performance with no instrumental accompaniment. 

adj
  • Singing solely or mainly without instrumental accompaniment. 

  • Related to a form of purely vocal music mostly associated with American college performance groups. 

adv
  • In a manner of a choir with no instrumental accompaniment; literally, "in the style of the (Sistine) Chapel (in Rome)", such as a musical Mass done a cappella. 

waffle

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

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

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

  • A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup. 

  • (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious. 

  • A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture. 

verb
  • To speak or write evasively or vaguely. 

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

  • To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver. 

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

  • Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing. 

  • To smash (something). 

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

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

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