When a Democrat is hit with a tough question and immediately responds with such a dense, sticky stack of talking points that the whole answer becomes the political equivalent of an online definition everyone agrees is better left unexamined, as it tends to be regrettable upon inspection.”
First used by David Russell Stout on Reddit— April 25, 2026
On April 25, 2026, David Russell Stout first used ‘bluewaffling’ to describe this kind of evasive political answer.
The act of making another person curious enough about what blue waffle is, that thet will look it up, and be blue waffled.
I was blue waffeling with Pete the other night, but it totally backfired, because he spat his drink all over my computer, and now i need a new keyboard :(
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)