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clump
English
Etymology
From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb?- (“lump, clamp”).Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
clump (plural clumps)
- A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
- A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
- 1954, Lucian Hobart Ryland (translator), Adelaide of Brunswick (originally by Marquis de Sade)
- clump of trees
- 1954, Lucian Hobart Ryland (translator), Adelaide of Brunswick (originally by Marquis de Sade)
- A dull thud.
- The compressed clay of coal strata.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)
- A small group of trees or plants.
- (historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
Derived terms
- clumpy
Translations
- to be checked
Verb
clump (third-person singular simple present clumps, present participle clumping, simple past and past participle clumped)
- (transitive, intransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
- (transitive, intransitive) To gather in dense groups.
- (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
- (transitive, Britain, regional) To strike; to beat.
- 1912, Mrs. Coulson Kernahan, The Go-Between (page 79)
- There is his poor little cap hanging up on the door; and there on the table is the knife he chipped a piece out of through not minding the mark on the knife machine, and I clumped his head for him, poor lamb!
- 1912, Mrs. Coulson Kernahan, The Go-Between (page 79)
Derived terms
- clump up
Translations
References
Further reading
- Clump in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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wad
English
Etymology 1
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 w?d (“garment, clothing”) (English: weed). More at weed, meal.
Alternative forms
- wadde (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: w?d, IPA(key): /w?d/
- (General American) enPR: w?d, IPA(key): /w?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
wad (plural wads)
- An amorphous, compact mass.
- Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
- A substantial pile (normally of money).
- With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan
- 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.
- Synonyms: prop, valet
- (slang) A sandwich.
- (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
Synonyms
- (an ejaculation of semen): cumload, cumwad, load
Derived terms
- (charge plug): wad hook
- (ejaculate): blow one's wad, shoot one's wad, cumwad
Translations
See also
- Wad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
wad (third-person singular simple present wads, present participle wadding, simple past and past participle wadded)
- To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
- She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
- 1676, John Evelyn, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth, London: John Martyn, p. 181,[1]
- […] if you lay any fearnbrakes or other trash about them to entertain the moisture, and skreen it from the heat, let it not be wadded so close, or suffer’d to lie so long, as to contract any mustiness, but rather loose and easie, that the Air may have free intercourse, and to break the more intense ardours of the scorching Sun-beams.
- 1930, Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Chapter 11, p. 122,[2]
- She stood just inside the door, wadding a black-bordered hand-kerchief in her small gloved hands […]
- 1969, Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, New York: Popular Library, 1976, Chapter 25, p. 228,[3]
- She wadded Marian into her chair, which was lumpy with garments in progressive stages of dirtiness, and tucked a towel around her neck.
- (Ulster) To wager.
- To insert or force a wad into.
- to wad a gun
- To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
- to wad a cloak
- 1721, John Midriff, Observations on the Spleen and Vapours, London: J. Roberts, pp. 7-8,[4]
- […] upon his Body were several Flannel Wastcoats, a Cassock of thick Cloth, with a thick wadded Gown, and about his Shoulders the Quilt which he had taken from off the Bed.
- 1851, Richard Francis Burton, Goa, and the Blue Mountains, London: Richard Bentley, Chapter 1, p. 11,[5]
- Could you believe it possible that through such a night as this they choose to sleep under those wadded cotton coverlets, and dread not instantaneous asphixiation?
- 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book 2, Chapter 20,[6]
- If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
Translations
Etymology 2
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Alternative forms
- wadd
Noun
wad (countable and uncountable, plural wads)
- (dialect) Plumbago, graphite.
- (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
Anagrams
- ADW, AWD, DAW, Daw, d'aw, daw
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch wat, from Old Dutch *wad, from Frankish *wad, from earlier wad (attested c. 108), from Proto-Germanic *wad?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???t/
- Hyphenation: wad
- Rhymes: -?t
- Homophones: wat, watt
Noun
wad n (plural wadden, diminutive wadje n)
- wadeable mud flat
Derived terms
- Waddeneiland
- waddenkust
- Waddenzee
- wadlopen
- wadzand
Italian
Noun
wad m (invariable)
- (mineralogy) wad (manganese ore)
Maranungku
Noun
wad
- go
- wad ga?ani : I went (wad 'go', ga- 'past tense', -?a- 'I', -ni 'movement')
References
- Pacific Linguistics (Australian National University), issue 54 (1979), page 246
Old English
Alternative forms
- weard, *weald
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *wai?d.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w??d/
Noun
w?d n
- woad
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: wad, wod, wadde, wode
- Scots: wad, waid
- English: woad
- Middle English: welde, wolde
- English: weld, wold
References
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vat/
Noun
wad f
- genitive plural of wada
Scots
Verb
wad
- (South Scots) would
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