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Wad
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- 1 An amorphous, compact mass.
"Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper."
- 2 Plumbago, graphite. countable, dialectal, uncountable
"Wad was worth the equivalent of £1,300 a tonne, and some people felt it was worth risking a whipping to smuggle it out."
- 3 a wad of something chewable as tobacco wordnet
- 4 A substantial pile (normally of money).
"With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan."
- 5 Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits. countable, uncountable
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- 6 (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent wordnet
- 7 A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
- 8 a small mass of soft material wordnet
- 9 A sandwich. slang
"Once we were all sat on the ground, drinking our tea and eating a cheese wad - that was all you could get - I asked where my mate Jackson was. Nobody had any idea but as he was required in the flight office we did a search."
- 10 An ejaculation of semen. slang, vulgar
"All at once, Steven let out a loud gasp, as his cock jerked violently in his hand and sent wad after wad of hot white sperm shooting out all over his chest and stomach."
- 1 Acronym of works as designed. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, humorous
- 2 Acronym of where's all the data?, commonly used when referring to the video game Doom. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 1 To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
"She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash."
- 2 compress into a wad wordnet
- 3 To wager. Ulster
- 4 crowd or pack to capacity wordnet
- 5 To insert or force a wad into.
"to wad a gun"
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- 6 To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
"to wad a cloak"
Etymology
Probably short for Middle English wadmal (“woolen cloth”), from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen stuff”), from váð (“cloth”) + mál (“measure”). See wadmal. Cognate with Swedish vadd (“wadding, cotton wool”), German Wat, Watte (“wad, padding, cotton wool”), Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, watten (“cotton wool”), West Frisian waad, Old English wǣd (“garment, clothing”) (English: weed). More at weed, meal.
Probably short for Middle English wadmal (“woolen cloth”), from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen stuff”), from váð (“cloth”) + mál (“measure”). See wadmal. Cognate with Swedish vadd (“wadding, cotton wool”), German Wat, Watte (“wad, padding, cotton wool”), Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, watten (“cotton wool”), West Frisian waad, Old English wǣd (“garment, clothing”) (English: weed). More at weed, meal.
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