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noun
1.
any fibrous or soft material for stuffing, padding, packing, etc., especially carded cotton in specially prepared sheets.
2.
material used as wads for guns, cartridges, etc.
3.
Surgery. any large dressing made of cotton or a similar absorbent material that is used to stanch the flow of blood or dress a wound.
4.
a wad or lump.
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Wadding
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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noun
1.
a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
2.
a small mass of cotton, wool, or other fibrous or soft material, used for stuffing, padding, packing, etc.
3.
a roll of something, especially of bank notes.
4.
Informal. a comparatively large stock or quantity of something, especially money: He's got a healthy wad salted away.
5.
EXPANDa plug of cloth, tow, paper, or the like, used to hold the powder or shot, or both, in place in a gun or cartridge.
6.
COLLAPSEBritish Dialect. a bundle, especially a small one, of hay, straw, etc.
verb (used with object)
7.
to form (material) into a wad.
8.
to roll tightly (often followed by up): He wadded up his cap and stuck it into his pocket.
9.
to hold in place by a wad: They rammed and wadded the shot into their muskets.
10.
to put a wad into; stuff with a wad.
11.
to fill out with or as if with wadding; stuff; pad: to wad a quilt; to wad a speech with useless information.
verb (used without object)
Idiom12.
to become formed into a wad: The damp tissues had wadded in his pocket.
13.
shoot one's wad, Informal.
a.
to spend all one's money: He shot his wad on a new car.
b.
to expend all one's energies or resources at one time: She shot her wad writing her first novel and her second wasn't as good.
c.
Slang: Vulgar. (of a man) to have an orgasm.
Origin:
1530–40; < Medieval Latin wadda < Arabic bāṭa'in lining of a garment, batting; compare French ouate, Dutch watte, Swedish vadd
1530–40; < Medieval Latin wadda < Arabic bāṭa'in lining of a garment, batting; compare French ouate, Dutch watte, Swedish vadd
Related forms
wad·der, noun
un·wad·ded, adjective
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Word Origin & History
wad
1540, "soft material for padding or stuffing," of uncertain origin, and the different meanings may represent more than one source. Among the possible connections are M.L. wadda, Du. watten, and M.E. wadmal (1392) "woolen cloth," which seems to be from O.N. vaðmal "a woolen fabric of Scandinavia,"
EXPANDprobably from vað "cloth" + mal "measure." The meaning "bundle of currency" is Amer.Eng., 1778. The verb is first recorded 1579. To shoot (one's) wad "do all one can do" is recorded from 1914. The immediate source of the expression probably is the noun sense of "disk of cloth used to hold powder and shot in place in a gun." Wad in slang sense of "a load of semen" is attested from 1920s, and the expression now often is felt in this sense. As a suffix, -wad in 1980s joined -bag, -ball, -head in combinations meaning "disgusting or unpleasant person."
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