Wadded vs Wanded - What's the difference?
wadded | wanded |
(wad)
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.
(wand)
A stick or staff.
(by extension) An instrument shaped like a stick or staff such as a curling wand .
a magic wand.
A branch or stalk, especially of willow.
A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
As verbs the difference between wadded and wanded
is that wadded is (wad) while wanded is (wand).wadded
English
Verb
(head)wad
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(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
