Meaning

7 senses
  1. An amorphous, compact mass.

    Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.

    комо́кkomók

    жмутокžmutok, шматокšmatok

    a small mass of soft material

  2. A substantial pile (normally of money).

    With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan.

    па́чкаpáčka

    пачкаpačka

  3. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.

    Vorladung, Vorschlag, Pfropfen

    пыжpyž

    клейтухklejtux, пижpyž

  4. (slang)A sandwich.

  5. (slang, vulgar)An ejaculation of semen.

    Wichse

  6. (countable, dialectal, uncountable)Plumbago, graphite.

  7. (countable, uncountable)Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.

Examples

22 sentences
  1. Tom wadded up the piece of paper.

    ruТом скомкал клочок бумаги.

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  2. Tom threw a wadded-up piece of paper at Mary.

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  3. Tom pulled a big wad of cash out of his pocket.

    ruТом вытащил большую пачку денег из кармана.

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  4. I have wads of rubber bands.

    deIch habe Bündel von Gummiringen.

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  5. Tom burned a wad of bills.

    ruТом сжёг пачку денег.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
compact mass:
substantial pile (normally of money):
soft plug:
Русский
By meaning 3
compact mass:
substantial pile (normally of money):
soft plug:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
soft plug:
ejaculate:

Origin

Probably short for Middle English wadmal (“woolen cloth”), from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen

Probably short for Middle English wadmal (“woolen cloth”), from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen stuff”), from váð (“cloth”) + mál (“measure”). See wadmal.

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Forms

plural: wads

Synonyms

36 synonyms
an ejaculation of semen:loadA2cumloadcumwad
Close in meaning

Word family

13 related words

See also

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