wad

See also vad, văd, váð, vað, wæd, våd, wād, and WAD

English

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Alternative forms

• wadde (obsolete)

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 Watte (“wad, padding, cotton wool”), Dutch watten (“cotton wool”), Old English wǣd (“garment, clothing”). More at weed, meal.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒd

Noun

wad (plural wads)

1. An amorphous, compact mass.

   Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.

2. A substantial pile (normally of money).

   With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan

3. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
4. (vulgar, slang) an ejaculate of semen.
5. (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits

See also

• Wad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

compact mass

Finnish: tuppo (fi) French: tampon (fr) m., boule (fr) f.

Japanese: 固まり (ja) (katamari) Russian: комок (ru) m.

a substantial pile (normally of money)

Finnish: nippu (fi), tukku (fi) French: paquet (fr) m., liasse (fr) f. Japanese: 束 (ja) (taba)

Polish: plik (banknotów) Russian: пачка (ru) f.

soft plug

Finnish: tuppo (fi) French: bourre (fr) f.

Russian: пыж (ru) m.

ejaculate

French: décharge (fr) f.

German: Wichse (de) f.

Verb

wad (third-person singular simple present wads, present participle wadding, simple past and past participle wadded)

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. (Ulster) to wager

Anagrams

• ADW
• AWD
• daw, DAW

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Dutch

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Etymology

From Old Dutch *wat, from Proto-Germanic *wadan.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑt

Noun

wad n. (plural wadden, diminutive wadje)

1. mud flat

Derived terms

• Waddenzee

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Italian

Noun

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wad m. inv.

1. (mineralogy) wad (manganese ore)

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Old English

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *waidan, whence also Old High German weit

Noun

wād

1. woad

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Scots

Verb

wad

1. (South Scots) would