Etymology: (1530–40; < ML wadda < Ar bā&tdotbelow;a&hamza;in lining of a garment, batting; cf. F ouate, D watte, Sw vadd)
Definition of 'WAD'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)wad a smallmass of soft material "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"
2. (noun)batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad (often followed by `of') a largenumber or amount or extent "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
3. (verb)chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad a wad of something chewable as tobacco
4. (verb)pack, bundle, wad, compact compress into a wad "wad paper into the box"
5. (verb)jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad crowd or pack to capacity "the theater was jampacked"
2. (noun)WAD a little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow
3. (noun)WAD specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose
4. (noun)WAD a soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc
5. (noun)WAD alt. of Wadd
6. (verb)WAD to form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton
7. (verb)WAD to insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak
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