wafer
noun
a thin, crisp cake or biscuit, often sweetened and flavored.
wafery
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a word derived from
wafer.
Example Sentences
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I was just going to try the little wafery things, when all of a sudden the Hayfork Parson sat up, looking all dazed and nohow.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
This was none of your stand-up, wafery, bread and butter teas, but a thorough-going, sit-down supper, and all settled themselves with a smiling satisfaction, prophetic of great powers and an equal willingness to employ them.
From Moods by Louisa May Alcott
At Easter the clerk used to leave at the house of each pew-holder a packet of Easter cakes--thin wafery biscuits, not unlike Jewish Pass-over cakes.
From The Parish Clerk by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
I believe that every eye in the room followed them and watched till they curled and crinkled into black, wafery ashes.
From Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope
Then lemonade and wafery little cakes were brought in, that the puzzlers might refresh themselves.
From Patty's Friends by Carolyn Wells
