waffleynessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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waffleyness (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of waffliness
   • 1937, Naomi Jacob, Fade Out, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, book 2, chapter 6, section I, pages 148–149:

     Funny, but there’s summat of her father in her. A kind of spiritual and mental ‘waffleyness’. It’s all he had to leave and by God, poor little ’Nanda got it. It’s a sort of ‘come day, go day, God send Sunday’ attitude towards life. Whenever she didn’t want to face up to things, she shrugged her shoulders—it’s a trick that’s stuck to her all her life.