"waffleness" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992, Proceedings of the 46th Annual Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference, Columbus, Oh.: Ohio State University, page 20:",
          "text": "In too many instances the critical linkage between what the organization is trying to do and the employees who are going to have to do it represents a \"waffleness\" on the part of managers.",
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          "ref": "1994 August 15, Keith Rogers, “Propellerhead Rally! (Doonesbury)”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-11-26:",
          "text": "Here's another vote for the waffle. It seems to me that a flipping coin is flipping because of outside pressures applied to it, and if left to itself would simply lie on the table. But a waffle waffles due to the waffleness of its own waffle nature.",
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          "ref": "1996 April 13, Roger H. Elliott, Jr., “Break a habit”, in Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Corpus Christi, Tex.: Caller-Times Publishing Company, →ISSN, Letters to the Editor, page A10, column 5:",
          "text": "If you want four more years of government dominance, dependency, welfare, “waffleness,” deficit, lack of character, etc., you’re endorsing the right party.",
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          "ref": "2002 February 7, Zsa Zsa, “Name that illness?”, in uk.people.support.cfs-me (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-11-26:",
          "text": "Well as soon as I realised that I must have ME rather than the Crohn's disease that I was originally diagnosed with, as soon as I was sent to a consultant who'd been recommended by afME, I was diagnosed as having ME/CFS immediately, so I was never disbelieved once I'd been self, and then formally diagnosed if you see what I mean (plse excuse waffleness).",
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          "ref": "2008 December 10, Sheryl Nadler, “A whole lot of proroguing goin’ on”, in The Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton, Ont.: Metroland Media Group, →ISSN, page Go 5, column 2:",
          "text": "You need to put him out of your head, terminate this perpetual state of waffleness.",
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          "ref": "2021, Richard Beard, “Separation”, in Sad Little Men: How Public Schools Failed Britain, London: Vintage, →ISBN:",
          "text": "There are Latin tags, tempus edax rerum, as just one example of verbal atrocities and general waffleness, which I fear but seem unable to avoid.",
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          "ref": "1992, Proceedings of the 46th Annual Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference, Columbus, Oh.: Ohio State University, page 20:",
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          "ref": "1994 August 15, Keith Rogers, “Propellerhead Rally! (Doonesbury)”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-11-26:",
          "text": "Here's another vote for the waffle. It seems to me that a flipping coin is flipping because of outside pressures applied to it, and if left to itself would simply lie on the table. But a waffle waffles due to the waffleness of its own waffle nature.",
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