wad

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  1. noun A small mass of soft material, often folded or rolled, used for padding, stuffing, or packing.
  2. noun A compressed ball, roll, or lump, as of tobacco or chewing gum.
  3. noun A plug, as of cloth or paper, used to retain a powder charge in a muzzleloading gun or cannon.
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  • Just a real tight-wad, but with the understanding that businesses can't be net charities and do need to make a profit. —  seMissourian.com Headlines
  • Anything that puts us on the attack and gets the enemy's panties in a wad is seen a a giant plus. —  Latest Articles
  • Mu'tasem A'wad, an international and human rights lawyer for the Red Crescent said there was evidence of "a clear Israeli policy of targeting medical staff," in the incident, and added that it corresponded with attacks of medical personnel at the weekly anti wall protests gein Bil'in and Ni'lin. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • It put the Dems 'panties in a wad, and that was worth every word regardless of how the so-called surrendering conservative elitists Iowa Hawk parodied looked down their opera glasses at the TV screen. —  Lone Star Times
  • Torrent halflife wad is available for download in the Games category of our bit torrents web site. —  all torrents rss feed
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bundle ·  lump ·  handful ·  pile ·  hae ·  scrap ·  hunk ·  bale ·  stack ·  sheaf ·  strip ·  bit

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wad:   wads
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Early modern English wadde; cf. Dutch watte = German watte, wad, wadding, = Old Swedish wad, clothing, cloth, stuff, Swedish vadd, wadding, = Danish vat, wadding, = Icelandic *vadhr, in comp. vadmāl, a woolen stuff, wadmal (see wadmal); akin to Middle Dutch waede, waeye = Middle Low German wade, German watte, a large fishing-net, = Icelandic vadhr, a fishing-net, and to Anglo-Saxon wǣd, etc., clothing, weed: see weed. Hence (from German watte) F. ouate (later Spanish huata) = Italian ovata (Middle Latin wadda) = Russian vata, wad, wadding. The relations of the forms are involved; English wad is perhaps in part short for the obsolete wadmal.
  2. = German watten (cf. freq. G. wattiren = Dutch watteren = Danish vattere), wad; from the noun.
  3. Also wadd; origin obscure.
 

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