WAD

chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad

(noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco

batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

(noun) (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent; “a batch of letters”; “a deal of trouble”; “a lot of money”; “he made a mint on the stock market”; “see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos”; “it must have cost plenty”; “a slew of journalists”; “a wad of money”

wad

(noun) a small mass of soft material; “he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter”

pack, bundle, wad, compact

(verb) compress into a wad; “wad paper into the box”

jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad

(verb) crowd or pack to capacity; “the theater was jampacked”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Noun

wad (plural wads)

An amorphous, compact mass.

A substantial pile (normally of money).

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

(slang) A sandwich.

(slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.

Synonyms

• (an ejaculation of semen): cumload, cumwad, load

Verb

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

To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.

(Ulster) To wager.

To insert or force a wad into.

To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

Etymology 2

Noun

wad (countable and uncountable, plural wads)

(dialect) Plumbago, graphite.

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

Anagrams

• ADW, AWD, DAW, Daw, d'aw, daw

Phrase

WAD

(computing, humorous) Acronym of works as designed.

(computing, gaming) Acronym of en (“where's all the data? Commonly used when referring to the video game Doom.”).

Anagrams

• ADW, AWD, DAW, Daw, d'aw, daw

Source: Wiktionary

Wad, n. Etym: [See Woad.]

Definition: Woad. [Obs.]

Wad, n. Etym: [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vadd wadding, Dan vat, D. & G. watte. Cf. Wadmol.]

1. A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow. Holland.

2. Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.

3. A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc. Wed hook, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun.

Wad, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wadding.]

1. To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.

2. To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.

Wad, Wadd, n. (Min.) (a) An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties. (b) Plumbago, or black lead.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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