wad

Plural: wads

Noun

• a small mass of soft material
  • "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"
• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
  • "a wad of money"
• a wad of something chewable as tobacco
• 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, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
• A sandwich.
• An ejaculation of semen.
• Plumbago, graphite.
• Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.

Verb

Verb Forms: wadded, wadding, wads

• To form soft material into a small mass.
• compress into a wad
  • "wad paper into the box"
• crowd or pack to capacity
• To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
• To wager.
• To insert or force a wad into.
• To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

Examples

• He would WAD up his scratch paper after calculating potential Scrabble plays.
• Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
• She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
• With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan.

Synonyms

batch, bundle, chaw, chew, chock up, compact, cram, cud, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, jam, jampack, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, pack, passel, peck, pile, plenty, plug, pot, quid, quite a little, raft, ram, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, cumload, cumwad, load, prop, valet

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