"waffle iron" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: waffle irons [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} waffle iron (plural waffle irons)
  1. A cooking appliance, with hinged, indented metal plates, used to make waffles. Categories (topical): Cookware and bakeware Synonyms: waffle maker Translations (a cooking appliance used to make waffles): vaffeljern [neuter] (Danish), wafelijzer [neuter] (Dutch), vaflofero (Esperanto), vahvliraud (Estonian), vohvelirauta (Finnish), gaufrier [masculine] (French), moule à gaufres [masculine] (French), Waffeleisen [neuter] (German), βαφλιέρα (vafliéra) [feminine] (Greek), vöfflujárn [neuter] (Icelandic), vaflomuldilo (Ido), vaffeljern [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), vaffeljarn [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), vaffeljern [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), Wofeliesa [neuter] (Plautdietsch), gofrownica [feminine] (Polish), ва́фельница (váfelʹnica) [feminine] (Russian), gofrera [feminine] (Spanish), waflera [feminine] (Spanish), våffeljärn (Swedish), vaefafer (Volapük), וואַפֿליעניצע (vaflyenitse) [feminine] (Yiddish), וואַפֿליע־אײַזן (vaflye-ayzn) [masculine] (Yiddish)

Inflected forms

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