schwafeln

== German == === Etymology === Originally dialectal, from East Central German [Term?]. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃvaːfl̩n/ Hyphenation: schwa‧feln === Verb === schwafeln (weak, third-person singular present schwafelt, past tense schwafelte, past participle geschwafelt, auxiliary haben) (informal, derogatory) to waffle (to speak or write evasively or vaguely) Coordinate term: schwadronieren ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Schwafeln, Schwafler, Schwafelei, Geschwafel schwafelnd === Further reading === “schwafeln” in Duden online “schwafeln”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “schwafeln”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 657