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Wad vs Unwad - What's the difference?

wad | unwad |

As verbs the difference between wad and unwad

is that wad is third person singular of while unwad is to unfold (something wadded).

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

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    unwad

    English

    Verb

    (unwadd)
  • To unfold (something wadded).
  • * 1999 , Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger, Chicken soup for the college soul (page 37)
    • and he's never in his life managed to unwad a pair of socks before putting them in the hamper.
  • * 2009 , Terri Blackstock, Double Minds
    • Glancing back at the bathroom, she picked up and unwadded the paper. It was nothing. Just some download instructions from a computer help screen.