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1. Oxford Dictionary

   wad

   • IPA[wɒd]

   英式

   • n.
     a mass or lump of a soft material, used for padding, stuffing, or wiping；a portion of tobacco or another narcotic when used for chewing
   • v.
     compress (a soft material) into a lump or mass；line or stuff with wadding

   • verb: wad, 3rd person present: wads, gerund or present participle: wadding, past tense: wadded, past participle: wadded

   • noun: wad, plural noun: wads

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a mass or lump of a soft material, used for padding, stuffing, or wiping a wad of lint-free rag 同義詞 lump, mass, chunk, hunk, wedge, ... 更多ball, clump, block, pat, brick, cube, bar, cake, slab, nugget, plug, pad, knob, glob, dollop, cluster, nub, bit, piece, portion, segment, gobbet, informalwodge, gob
   • ▪ a portion of tobacco or another narcotic when used for chewing I made a wad out of the young leaves and twigs and tried to masticate slowly 同義詞 quid, twist, plug, chew, informalchaw, ... 更多rarepigtail, cud, cake
   • ▪ historical a disc of felt or another material used to keep powder or shot in place in a gun barrel.
   • 2. a bundle or roll of paper or banknotes she held up a wad of greenbacks 同義詞 bundle, roll, bankroll, pile, stack, ... 更多sheaf, pocketful, load
   • ▪ informal a large amount of something, especially money she was working on TV and had wads of money
   • 3. British informal a bun, cake, sandwich, or other piece of food tea and wads in some church hall

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. compress (a soft material) into a lump or mass wad the strips over and over so that they ball up I removed the name tag and promptly wadded it up
   • 2. line or stuff with wadding the quilts are wadded with thick natural cotton
   • ▪ stop up (an aperture) with a lump of soft material.

   片語

   • shoot one's wad