Timeline for The origins and usages of "waffle"
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| Nov 7, 2014 at 10:47 | history | bounty ended | Mari-Lou A | ||
| Nov 6, 2014 at 22:17 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 6, 2014 at 18:51 | comment | added | TimR | Oops, it had "ooks" instead of "books". | |
| Nov 6, 2014 at 18:49 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 6, 2014 at 18:31 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Well done! 1955 Canadian link. And 1900 UK citation too. | |
| Nov 6, 2014 at 12:51 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 5, 2014 at 21:33 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I really like what you've written so far, but it feels a little incomplete, how about adding a summary, or a citation (ideally before the 1960s) from an American source? | |
| Nov 4, 2014 at 12:50 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2014 at 23:04 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2014 at 14:55 | comment | added | TimR | Wright finds the attestation on page 141 of The Dialect And Folk-Lore Of Northamptonshire by Thomas Sternberg. London. 1851. | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 14:51 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2014 at 13:12 | comment | added | TimR | Not sure why. The link in your comment takes me directly to the page. I've tried the link in another browser and it works there too. Here's the base link: books.google.com/… and you should be able to us the "add that book to your library" feature (Free e-book) and then go to the -W- section. | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 13:05 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2014 at 11:55 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2014 at 11:49 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2014 at 11:44 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2014 at 11:43 | comment | added | TimR | My rep has been changing here. At first, I couldn't correct a typo in my own answer. I'll copy the content into the answer. | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 8:31 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Just providing a link is not a good idea: links to Google Books in particular don't work for everyone. Please provide a transcribed excerpt or a screen shot (with proper attribution to the source work). But if this is not an answer, then it should be really be a comment as you have enough rep for that. Perhaps you could make it an answer? | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 12:25 | comment | added | TimR | Sorry about the first link, it works here. It gives a definition of wiffle-waffle "to whet a scythe", which I understand (perhaps incorrectly?) to involve a back-and-forth motion. Wiffle (whiffle) and waffle (whaffle, woffle) seem to involve swinging or swaying or moving back and forth (literal 'vacillation'); the word wiffle-waffle has among its meanings 'to speak in a meandering manner'. In the American use of 'waffling politicians', they either speak in an evasive manner so as not to be held to an opinion, or they flip-flop and say today the opposite of what they said last week. | |
| Nov 1, 2014 at 17:54 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 1, 2014 at 13:45 | history | answered | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |