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wad

noun
/wɒd/UK/wɑd/US

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.

  1. derived from váðmál
  2. inherited from wadmal

Definitions

  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…

    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.

    • "Bulleted revolver cartridges contain no wad. You are thinking of a shot-gun, sir."
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. A sandwich.

      • 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.

    2. An ejaculation of semen.

      • 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.

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

      • She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
      • She stood just inside the door, wadding a black-bordered hand-kerchief in her small gloved hands […]

    4. To wager.

    5. To insert or force a wad into.

      • to wad a gun

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

      • to wad a cloak
      • […] 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.
      • 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?

    7. Plumbago, graphite.

      • Wad was worth the equivalent of £1,300 a tonne, and some people felt it was worth risking a whipping to smuggle it out.

    8. Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various…

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

    9. Acronym of works as designed.

    10. Acronym of where's all the data?, commonly used when referring to the video game Doom.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wad. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA