XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an cúigiú lá is fiche de mí Aibreán, scríobh Steve Hayes:   
      
    > >Speaking (in sci.lang) of Andy Grove, he uses waffle in the above sense in   
    > >his good, well-edited ‘High Output Management.’ In my youth I would   
   only   
    > >have used or understood the word in the meaning ‘to ramble on, to say   
    > >nothing of much consequence,’ and OED2 documents that the   
    > >fail-to-make-a-decision sense is colloquial or non-standard.   
    >   
    > What is the "above" sense?   
      
   The one in the subject, ‘to waver, to vacillate, to equivocate, to dither.’   
      
    > I see no sense "above".   
    >   
    > >I presume I have misunderstood various Americans over the years in not   
    > >picking up on the ‘dither’ meaning. How universal is that meaning over   
    > >there?   
    >   
    > For what values of "that"?   
      
   “Dither,” to fail to make a decision when making a decision would be   
   appropriate.   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)