Wad vs Gobbet - What's the difference?
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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.
a quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch
a lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat
* (rfdate) Wyclif
an extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, translation or discussion in an examination.
To splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter.
To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
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As nouns the difference between wad and gobbet
is that wad is an amorphous, compact mass while gobbet is a quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch.As verbs the difference between wad and gobbet
is that wad is to crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball while gobbet is to splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter.As an acronym WAD
is it works as designed.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
* * * ----gobbet
English
Noun
(wikipedia gobbet) (en noun)- [He] had broken the stocks to small gobbets .
Verb
(en verb)References
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