wad

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See also: vad, WAD, văd, wäd, våd, vað, wæd, -wad, and váð

English

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Etymology 1

Probably short for (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English wadmal (“woolen cloth”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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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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, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
    Synonyms: prop, valet
  4. (slang) A sandwich.
  5. (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
    • 2000, Ian Cappell, The Awakening, London: Prowler Books, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2003, Harlyn Aizley, Buying Dad: One Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor, Los Angeles, Calif.: Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 70:
      It's a strange thing this yellow liquid, the bodily fluid of a stranger. What was he thinking when he shot his wad? Is he somewhere now wondering about his sperm? Is he at this very moment wondering if a woman somewhere is inseminating with his seed? Well, we are! Here we are in Boston, and we are!
    • 2001, Peter F. Murphy, Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 44:
      When a man "blows his wad," at least two different things could have occurred: he either spent or lost all his money in a wager (his wad), or he spent or ejaculated his sperm (his wad). Thorne goes on to suggest that since at least the 1950s "blow," in this context, is a euphemism for "ejaculate."
    • 2008, Chaucer Malone, Miguk, the Holy Man, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 490:
      Grabbing hold of his throbbing organ, he started to turn away from her, had second thoughts, and proceeded to shoot his wad, ejaculate all over the sweating, sultry body that was stretched out, languishing at his feet.
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  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.
    • 1676, John Evelyn, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth, London: John Martyn, p. 181,[1]
      […] if you lay any fearnbrakes or other trash about them to entertain the moisture, and skreen it from the heat, let it not be wadded so close, or suffer’d to lie so long, as to contract any mustiness, but rather loose and easie, that the Air may have free intercourse, and to break the more intense ardours of the scorching Sun-beams.
    • 1930, Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Chapter 11, p. 122,[2]
      She stood just inside the door, wadding a black-bordered hand-kerchief in her small gloved hands […]
    • 1969, Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, New York: Popular Library, 1976, Chapter 25, p. 228,[3]
      She wadded Marian into her chair, which was lumpy with garments in progressive stages of dirtiness, and tucked a towel around her neck.
  2. (Ulster) To wager.
  3. To insert or force a wad into.
    to wad a gun
  4. To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
    to wad a cloak
    • 1721, John Midriff, Observations on the Spleen and Vapours, London: J. Roberts, pp. 7-8,[4]
      […] upon his Body were several Flannel Wastcoats, a Cassock of thick Cloth, with a thick wadded Gown, and about his Shoulders the Quilt which he had taken from off the Bed.
    • 1851, Richard Francis Burton, Goa, and the Blue Mountains, London: Richard Bentley, Chapter 1, p. 11,[5]
      Could you believe it possible that through such a night as this they choose to sleep under those wadded cotton coverlets, and dread not instantaneous asphixiation?
    • 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book 2, Chapter 20,[6]
      If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

wad (countable and uncountable, plural wads)

  1. (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch *wad, from Frankish *wad, from earlier wad (attested c. 108), from Proto-Germanic *wadą.

Pronunciation

Noun

wad n (plural wadden, diminutive wadje n)

  1. mud flat

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Italian

Noun

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wad m (uncountable)

  1. (mineralogy) wad (manganese ore)

Maranungku

Noun

wad

  1. go
    wad gaŋani : I went (wad 'go', ga- 'past tense', -ŋa- 'I', -ni 'movement')

References

  • Pacific Linguistics (Australian National University), issue 54 (1979), page 246

Old English

Alternative forms

  • ƿād — wynn spelling

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *waidą, whence also Old High German weit.

Pronunciation

Noun

wād n

  1. woad

Declension

Declension of wad (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative wād wād
accusative wād wād
genitive wādes wāda
dative wāde wādum

Descendants

  • Middle English: wad, wod, wadde, wode

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

wad f

  1. genitive plural of wada

Scots

Verb

wad

  1. (Southern Scots) would
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