To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
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.
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.
The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.