Wad vs Scrumple - What's the difference?
wad | scrumple |
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.
(British) To crumple, crush or wad (like a piece of paper).
*"The Man Who Never Was" by Ewen Montagu, published by J. B. Lippincott Company 1954 Page 87
*:"...once a piece of paper has been scrumpled no amount of flattening will erase the fact that it has been treated that way"
As verbs the difference between wad and scrumple
is that wad is to crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball while scrumple is to crumple, crush or wad (like a piece of paper).As a noun wad
is an amorphous, compact mass.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