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Wads   /wɑdz/   Listen
Wads

noun
1.
A large number or amount.  Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons.  "She amassed stacks of newspapers"


Wad

noun
1.
A small mass of soft material.
2.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum.  "A deal of trouble" , "A lot of money" , "He made a mint on the stock market" , "See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos" , "It must have cost plenty" , "A slew of journalists" , "A wad of money"
3.
A wad of something chewable as tobacco.  Synonyms: chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid.
verb
(past & past part. waded; pres. part. wadding)
1.
Compress into a wad.  Synonyms: bundle, compact, pack.
2.
Crowd or pack to capacity.  Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram.





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"Wads" Quotes from Famous Books



... likable; and behind the genial front were the big hands that would crush; behind the plausible eyes, the craft that would undermine what the hands could not crush. Anaemic teachers and preachers might as well throw paper wads at a wall as attempt to dislodge this man with argument. Right was an empty term to him. Might he understood; ...
— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut
... occurs from the ears, it is not best to plug them with cotton wads. It only keeps in what should be got rid of. Do not go to sleep with the head on a window sill or in any position, with the ears exposed to draughts of cold or ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell
... Bearwarden, "to impress a negative through that haze. I think," he continued, "I know a trick that will do the business, if we see any more of these dragons." Saying which, he withdrew the cartridges from his gun, and with his hunting-knife cut the tough paper shell nearly through between the wads separating the powder from the shot, drawing his ...
— A Journey in Other Worlds - A Romance of the Future • John Jacob Astor
... comes once a week to give us a scripture lesson. He is only a curate and looks very shy. We had a most exciting time with him yesterday. We all shied paper wads, and he moved nearly every one up and sent one ...
— Lalage's Lovers - 1911 • George A. Birmingham
... At the end of the month he was looking pretty thin and we were afraid he would peg out any day. It was hard luck on us, for things were coming our way and our bank rolls were getting good and plenty thick and they were all 'yellow boys,' from the case card to the wrapper. Our wads grew fatter as Pete grew thinner, and we were looking for some easy mark to unload him onto, when one morning Merritt comes running out, just as I was staving off a farmer who had heard him lie and brought around a flock ...
— Side Show Studies • Francis Metcalfe


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