wad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wŏd
ipa: /wɒd/
enpr: wŏd
ipa: /wɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: wads
form: wadde
Etymology: Probably short for Middle English wadmal (“woolen cloth”), from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen stuff”), from váð (“cloth”) + mál (“measure”). See wadmal.
Cognate with Swedish vadd (“wadding, cotton wool”), German Wat, Watte (“wad, padding, cotton wool”), Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, watten (“cotton wool”), West Frisian waad, Old English wǣd (“garment, clothing”) (English: weed). More at weed, meal.
Senses: examples: text: Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
glosses: An amorphous, compact mass.
examples: text: With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan.
text: The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene. With the IR supered on top of the visible, she can also see vague, spectral red faces out in the shadows where her unassisted eyes would only see darkness. These new Knight Visions cost her a big wad of her Mob drug-running money. Just the kind of thing Mom had in mind when she insisted Y.T. get a part-time job.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 243:
glosses: A substantial pile (normally of money).
synonyms: prop
valet
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Once we were all sat on the ground, drinking our tea and eating a cheese wad - that was all you could get - I asked where my mate Jackson was. Nobody had any idea but as he was required in the flight office we did a search.
ref: 2012 January 17, Deborah Lake, Growling Over The Oceans: Avro Shackleton: The Men and the Missions:
glosses: A sandwich.
examples: text: All at once, Steven let out a loud gasp, as his cock jerked violently in his hand and sent wad after wad of hot white sperm shooting out all over his chest and stomach.
ref: 2000, Ian Cappell, The Awakening, London: Prowler Books, →ISBN:
text: It's a strange thing this yellow liquid, the bodily fluid of a stranger. What was he thinking when he shot his wad? Is he somewhere now wondering about his sperm? Is he at this very moment wondering if a woman somewhere is inseminating with his seed? Well, we are! Here we are in Boston, and we are!
ref: 2003, Harlyn Aizley, Buying Dad: One Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor, Los Angeles, Calif.: Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 70:
text: When a man "blows his wad," at least two different things could have occurred: he either spent or lost all his money in a wager (his wad), or he spent or ejaculated his sperm (his wad). Thorne goes on to suggest that since at least the 1950s "blow," in this context, is a euphemism for "ejaculate."
ref: 2001, Peter F. Murphy, Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 44:
text: Grabbing hold of his throbbing organ, he started to turn away from her, had second thoughts, and proceeded to shoot his wad, ejaculate all over the sweating, sultry body that was stretched out, languishing at his feet.
ref: 2008, Chaucer Malone, Miguk, the Holy Man, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 490:
glosses: An ejaculation of semen.
Synonyms: sense: an ejaculation of semen
word: cumload
sense: an ejaculation of semen
word: cumwad
sense: an ejaculation of semen
word: load
Derived terms: sense: charge plug
word: wad hook
sense: ejaculate
word: blow one's wad
sense: ejaculate
word: shoot one's wad
sense: ejaculate
word: cumwad
word: get one's panties in a wad
word: junk wad
word: mobile wad
word: oily-wad
word: pop one's wad
word: spit wad