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See also cameleopard, an archaic name for the animal we know (and I love) as "giraffe." For the origins of this name (so much better than cameleopard), the OED sez:
"Ultimately ad. Arab. zarfah, whence also It. giraffa, Sp. and Pg. girafa, F. girafe; earlier adoptions of the word are found in OF. as giras (pl.), orafle and giraffle, in ME. as GERFAUNT, ORAFLE; also OSp. azorafa. The forms used by English writers have varied at different periods according to their immediate sources. The It. form giraffa was common in the 16-17th c., but some writers of 17th c. use giraff, app. following Gesner. The modern giraffe is from F., though the spelling in that language is now girafe. Jarraff and ziraph (17th c.) are independent adoptions from Arab. or some other oriental language."
I vote that giraffle be used to describe giraffe-shaped waffles.