waffle house

waffle house (plural waffle houses)

1. Alternative form of wafflehouse.
   • 1921 July 22, “Hinton’s Ice Cream Farm to Continue Business”, in The Andover Townsman, volume XXXIV, number 41, Andover, Mass., page five:

     [I]n the fall Miss [Alice] Hinton expects to thoroughly renovate the building and open a waffle house to be known as “Alice’s Waffle House.” Miss Hinton’s many friends wish her continued success as an Andover business woman.

   • 2013, Leigh Newman, Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 31:

     And she did not take her foot off the gas, zigzagging over the southern areas of the country—that vast anti-Alaska of waffle houses and sunshine, cattle ranches and swamplands.

   • 2014, Courtney Miller Santo, Three Story House: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 95:

     Batter ran down the sides of the waffle maker, puffing as it came into contact with the hot iron. / A sweet, yeasty cake smell filled the kitchen. “You could always open a waffle house,” Lizzie said. / Elyse flipped the pan and then scraped off the drippings with her fingernail and popped them into her mouth. “If I did, I’d be as big as the moon and then no one would ever love me.”