Wad vs Wadding - What's the difference?
wad | wadding |
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.
wads collectively
soft, fibrous cotton or wool used to make a wad, or as a packaging material
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
*:She slipped a hand into her kerchief pocket and took out the wadding and waved in reply of course without letting him and then slipped it back.
As nouns the difference between wad and wadding
is that wad is an amorphous, compact mass while wadding is wads collectively.As verbs the difference between wad and wadding
is that wad is to crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball while wadding is present participle of lang=en.As an acronym WAD
is it works as designed.As a proper noun Wadding is
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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
