wadding
See also: Wadding
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom wad + -ing (“material, collection”).
Noun
editwadding (countable and uncountable, plural waddings)
- Wads collectively.
- Soft, fibrous cotton or wool used to make a wad, or as a packaging material.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 13:
- She slipped a hand into her kerchief pocket and took out the wadding and waved in reply of course without letting him and then slipped it back.
Translations
editwads collectively
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soft fibrous cotton or wool
Etymology 2
editVerb
editwadding
- present participle and gerund of wad