wafer
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1.7
- noun
- /ˈweɪfər/
:
gaufre
- Margaret picks up her knife to halve the wafers of chocolate before she adds them to the sauce.
We have Oreo wafer rolls with strawberry filling.
- We have Oreo wafer rolls with strawberry filling.
- So on the inside, it has a kind of wafer which is very, very, very crumbling.
- Get that smoothie, little Brice or whatever your name is, little Deidra, which you want another couple of Necco wafers.
Examples
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Garnish with more cinnamon and serve with wafers or cinnamon/brown sugar pita chips!
Blog text (19) -
They'd probably need more vanilla wafers and lemonade to calm them down.
Fiction book (2000) -
Give her a pink wafer.
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We're going to be using Twinkies today and chocolate wafer cookies.
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I love wafers, and they're all for me, too.
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We have our dark chocolate wafers and then we have sprinkles.
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Then we had the better idea of scooping it up with chocolate wafers.
Fiction book (2002) -
We have Oreo wafer rolls with strawberry filling.
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They look like little wafers and it smells like caramel.
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I love to top my ice cream with crispy wafers for added texture.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small flat sweet baked treat often with chocolate chips or nuts
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1.1
A flat sweet cookie made from simple dough often decorated with icing or sugar
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3.7
Sweet food like candy or a small cake
A thin crispy wafer served with desserts or ice cream
Compounds
How Crisp
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wafer comes from an old word wafla meaning 'thin cake', the same root you see in waffle, so the idea is a light, flat cake. That is why a wafer cookie is a very thin, crisp cake often served with desserts.