Wad vs Crinkle - What's the difference?
wad | crinkle |
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.
(slang) A sandwich.
(vulgar, slang) An ejaculate of semen.
(mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
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.
(ambitransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
* L. T. Trowbridge
* Elizabeth Browning
A wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness.
As nouns the difference between wad and crinkle
is that wad is an amorphous, compact mass while crinkle is a wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness.As verbs the difference between wad and crinkle
is that wad is to crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball while crinkle is (ambitransitive) to fold, crease, crumple, or wad.wad
English
(wikipedia wad)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
- With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan
Derived terms
* (ejaculate) blow one's wad, shoot one's wadSee also
* (Wad)Verb
(wadd)- She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
- to wad a gun
- to wad a cloak
Anagrams
* * * ----crinkle
English
Verb
(crinkl)- He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out.
- The old man's lined face crinkled into a smile.
- The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
- All the rooms were full of crinkling silks.
Noun
(en noun)- He observed the crinkles forming around his eyes and suddenly felt old.