Baffle vs. Waffle — What's the Difference?

To confuse or perplex, especially so as to frustrate or prevent from taking action

A waffle is a dish made from leavened batter or dough that is cooked between two plates that are patterned to give a characteristic size, shape, and surface impression. There are many variations based on the type of waffle iron and recipe used.

To impede the force or movement of (a fluid).

Speak or write at length in a vague or trivial manner

A usually static device that regulates the flow of a fluid or light.

Fail to make up one's mind

A partition that prevents interference between sound waves in a loudspeaker.

Lengthy but vague or trivial talk or writing

To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.

A failure to make up one's mind

(intransitive) To struggle in vain.

A small crisp batter cake, baked in a waffle iron and eaten hot with butter or syrup.

To foil; to thwart.

Denoting a style of fine honeycomb weaving or a fabric woven to give a honeycomb effect.

(obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.

A light crisp cake made of batter and baked in a waffle iron.

(obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).

Evasive or vague speech or writing.

A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.

To be unable to make a decision; waver

An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.

To speak or write evasively

A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

To speak, write, or act evasively about (something).

To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

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

To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

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

To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.

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

To practice deceit.

A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.

To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

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

A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.

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

A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated.

To smash (something).

A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

(intransitive) To speak or write evasively or vaguely.

A flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy

(intransitive) Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.

Be a mystery or bewildering to;

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

Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;

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

Check the emission of (sound)

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

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

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

A thin cake baked and then rolled; a wafer.

A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.

Pancake batter baked in a waffle iron

Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness;