wad

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 See also 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 2 Dutch 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Derived terms 3 Old English 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun 4 Scots 4.1 Verb

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[edit] Etymology

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[edit] Pronunciation

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  Rhymes: -ɒd

[edit] 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. Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits

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• Wad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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[edit] Verb

to 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.

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wad n. (plural wadden)

1. mud flat

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• Waddenzee

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

Common Germanic *wai(s)da-, whence also Old High German weit

[edit] Noun

wād

1. woad

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[edit] Verb

wad

1. (South Scots) would