wad

wad
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. lump, plug, stuffing, filling, batting, wadding; bankroll. See size, money.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [A little heap]
Syn. bundle, pile, mass, block, gathering, lump, tuft, clump, bunch.
2. [Soft materials used as a stopper or padding]
Syn. bushing, batting, backing, upholstery, plug, stop, pad, inner lining, interlining, underlining, coating, wadding, facing.
3. [*A considerable amount of money]
Syn. fortune, purse, bankroll, mint*; see wealth 2 .
v.
1. [To stuff]
Syn. pad, back, cushion, stop up, reinforce, interline, underline, face, quilt, sheathe, upholster; see also plug .
2. [To roll into a wad]
Syn. crimple, wrinkle, compress, rumple.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
mass, ball, lump, hunk, chunk, gob, clump, plug.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. An irregularly shaped mass of indefinite size: chunk, clod, clump, gob1, hunch, lump1, nugget. Informal: hunk. See PART. 2. Informal. An indeterminately great amount or number: jilhon, million (often used in plural), multiplicity, ream, trillion. Informal: bushel, gob1 (often used in plural), heap (often used in plural), load (often used in plural), lot, oodles, passel, peck2, scad (often used in plural), slew, zillion. See BIG. 3. Informal. A large sum of money: fortune, mint. Informal: bundle, pretty penny, tidy sum. Slang: pile. See RICH.

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