different between wad vs waa

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)

1. An amorphous, compact mass.

   Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.

2. A substantial pile (normally of money).

   With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan

3. 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

4. (slang) A sandwich.
5. (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)

1. 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.

2. (Ulster) To wager.
3. To insert or force a wad into.

   to wad a gun

4. 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)

1. (dialect) Plumbago, graphite.
2. (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)

1. wadeable mud flat

Derived terms

• Waddeneiland
• waddenkust
• Waddenzee
• wadlopen
• wadzand

Italian

Noun

wad m (invariable)

1. (mineralogy) wad (manganese ore)

Maranungku

Noun

wad

1. 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

1. 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

1. genitive plural of wada

Scots

Verb

wad

1. (South Scots) would

English

Etymology 1

Interjection

waa

1. The sound of a baby crying.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

waa (plural waa)

1. Alternative form of wa (“Thai unit of length”)

Anagrams

• AAW

Alaba

Noun

waa

1. water

References

• Joachim Crass, Das K'abeena: deskriptive Grammatik einer hochlandostkuschitischen Sprache (2005)

Alemannic German

Pronoun

waa

1. Alternative form of waas

Burji

Noun

wáa

1. water

Further reading

• Roba Dame, Charlotte Wedekind, Burji Dictionary (2008)
• Hans-Jürgen Sasse, An Etymological Dictionary of Burji, Kuschitische Sprachstudien 1 (1982, Hamburg, Hemut Buske Verlag)

Gamilaraay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?/

Interjection

waa

1. expression of praise

Noun

waa

1. pendant

References

• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary
• (2015) Ma Gamilaraay

Garo

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k/r/s-wa

Verb

waa (intransitive)

1. to rain

See also

• mikka

References

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon?^[1], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 363

Kaurna

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?/

Adverb

waa

1. where

Nzadi

Noun

wàá (plural m?n)

1. village

Further reading

• Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, ?ISBN

Ojibwe

Particle

waa

1. my! (exclamation)

See also

• waa-

References

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/waa-pc-disc

Sidamo

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Alaba waa and Burji waa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?/

Noun

waa m

1. water

References

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 81

Siuslaw

Verb

waa

1. to speak

Somali

Particle

waa

1. Topic marker which draws attention to the verb.

Usage notes

Placed before the verb; does not change normal word order.

Wathaurong

Noun

waa

1. raven

Wolio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/

Noun

waa

1. fire

References

• Anceaux, Johannes C. 1987. Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia). Dordrecht: Foris.