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Wad vs Crinkle - What's the difference?

wad | crinkle |

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)
  • An amorphous, compact mass.
  • Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
  • A substantial pile (normally of money).
  • With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * (ejaculate) blow one's wad, shoot one's wad

    See also

    * (Wad)

    Verb

    (wadd)
  • To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
  • She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
  • (Ulster) To wager.
  • To insert or force a wad into.
  • to wad a gun
  • To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
  • to wad a cloak

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    crinkle

    English

    Verb

    (crinkl)
  • (ambitransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
  • He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out.
    The old man's lined face crinkled into a smile.
  • To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
  • * L. T. Trowbridge
  • The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
  • All the rooms were full of crinkling silks.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness.
  • He observed the crinkles forming around his eyes and suddenly felt old.

    Anagrams

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