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Compound of våffla(“waffle”) + dag(“day”). A jocular folk etymological transition from vårfrudagen(“Lady Day”). According to SAOB attested since 1888.
28 Mar 1879, “Krönika.”, in Vesternorrlands Allehanda.:
"Våffeldagen" i tisdags var likasom en försmak af det stora, veckolånga skollof, hvilket i alla rättänkande skolgossar och skolflickors (vi hade så när sagdt äfven skollärares) ögon utgör den förnämsta epoken i hvarje vårtermin.
"Waffle Day" last Tuesday was like a foretaste of the large, week-long school holiday, which in the eyes of all right-thinking schoolboys and schoolgirls (and we on the brim nearly included schoolteachers) constitutes the most important epoch in each spring term.
Usage notes
In Sweden celebrated on March 25th. Also coincidences with the otherwise unrelated trandagen(“crane day”) in many areas.
