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Wad vs Wud - What's the difference?

wad | wud |

As a noun wad

is an amorphous, compact mass.

As a verb wad

is to crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.

As an acronym WAD

is it works as designed.

As an adjective wud is

mad.

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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    wud

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal) Mad.
  • * 1887 , '', from ''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables ,
    • Janet ran to him - she was fair wud wi' terror - an' clang to him, an' prayed him, for Christ's sake, save her frae the cummers; an' they, for their pairt, tauld him a' that was ken't, and maybe mair.
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