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noun
- An amorphous, compact mass.
- Our cat loves to play with a small of paper.
- A substantial pile (normally of money).
- With a 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.
- (cattag2, Vulgarities, Slang) an ejaculation of semen.
verb (wads, wadding, 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.
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noun (wadd, ies)
- (colloquial) A cowboy.
- 1992, w:Cormac_McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy?, All the Pretty Horses,
- : This is how it was with the old waddies, aint it?
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noun
- an amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of Wikipedia:Labour (economics), work, usually expressed on an hourly basis.
verb (wag, ing)
- to conduct or carry out.
- to war
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| waggon |
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noun
- A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
- A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pushed or pulled by human force.
- A child"s riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
- (context, US, AU, slang) A station waggon.
- (slang) A paddy waggon.
- A truck, or lorry.
- (context, Ireland, slang) An immoral woman, slapper.
verb
- (transitive) To transport by means of a waggon.
- (intransitive) To travel in a waggon.
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| wagon |
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noun
- A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
- A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pushed or pulled by human force.
- A child"s riding toy, four-wheeled and pulled or steered by a long handle in the front.
- (context, US, AU, slang) A station wagon.
- (slang) A paddy wagon.
- A truck, or lorry.
- (context, Ireland, slang) An immoral woman, slapper.
verb
- (transitive) To transport by means of a wagon.
- (intransitive) To travel in a wagon.
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noun
- A trip made by walking.
- I take a walk every morning
- A distance walked.
- It"s a long walk from my house to the library
- A manner of walking.
- The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
- (baseball) An instance of walking a batter.
- The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone
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| wallet |
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noun
- A flat case, often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
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| warder |
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noun - a guard, especially in a prison
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| warehouse |
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noun
- A place for store, storing large amounts of products (wares). In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
verb (warehouses, warehousing, warehoused, warehoused)
- To store, as in a warehouse.
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| warm |
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verb
- To make or keep
- Adjective, warm.
- To increasingly favour.
- He is warming to the idea.
- Her classmates are gradually warming to her.
adjective
- A temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; a Mild, mild temperature.
- The tea is still .
- Something that causes warmth, or the impression thereof.
- This is a very room.
- care, Caring, of relations to another person.
- We have a friendship.
- 1985: Robert Ferro, Blue Star
- : It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too , too young.
- (context, archaic) Ardent, zealous.
- 1776: Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 1
- : To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.
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| waster |
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noun
- (pejorative) One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
- An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief.
- A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
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| waterproof |
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adjective
- Unaffected by water.
- Made of or covered with material that doesn't allow water in.
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| waxy |
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adjective (waxier, waxiest)
- Resembling wax in texture or appearance.
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| way out |
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noun
- An exit
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| Wear |
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proper noun
- A river in the county of Tyne and Wear in north east England. The city of Sunderland is found upon its banks.
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| week |
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noun
- A period of seven days.
- The seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
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| wen |
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noun
- a cyst on the skin
- 1973: Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens, sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or"worse"with Strange Faraway Smiles. " Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
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| whist |
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noun
- A four-player card game, similar to bridge.
adjective
- silent, Silent
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| White |
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proper noun
- a British surname from a nickname for someone with white hair
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proper noun - (London) a wide street in Westminster between Parliament Square and Trafalgar Square; it houses several government offices
- a personification of the British government or civil service
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| whittle |
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noun
- a large knife
verb (whittl, ing)
- (context, transitive, or, intransitive) To cut or shape wood with a knife.
- (transitive) To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
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| wicket |
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noun
- A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one
- A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating
- (Cricket) One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman
- (Cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out
- (Cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together
- (Cricket) The pitch
- (Cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand
- (Croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven
- (snowboarding): A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
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| wide |
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noun
- (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
adjective (wid, er)
- Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- We walked down a corridor.
- Large in scope.
- The inquiry had a remit.
- (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
- That team needs a decent player.
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| wig |
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noun
- A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness; for cultural or religious reasons; for fashion; or by actors to help them resemble the character they are portraying.
verb (wigg, ing)
- To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
- (colloquial) To upbraid, reprimand.
- (colloquial) To become very excitable or emotional; to lose control of one's emotions.
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| wigging |
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noun
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to wig.
- (context, UK, colloquial, dated) A telling-off or reprimand.
- 1888: His Colonel talked to him severely when the cold weather ended. That made him more wretched than ever; and it was only an ordinary "Colonel's "! " Rudyard Kipling, "Thrown Away", Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2005, p. 18)
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| wight |
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noun
- (archaic) A living creature, especially a human being.
- (context, paganism) A being of one of the Nine Worlds of heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor.
adjective
- (archaic except in dialects) brave, valorous, strong
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| wing |
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noun
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
- (context, slang) Human arm.
- Part of an airplane that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- Part of a building, an extension from the main building
- Part of a huge room. (rfv-sense, Is this right? Could not find any proof. Hekaheka Jul 4, 2007)
- A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- A military air unit, smaller than a division but larger than a group or squadron.
- A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- (context, nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- (context, hockey, football, icehockey) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
verb
- (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.
- (intransitive) To fly.
- (intransitive) wing it: To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise.
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| withy |
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noun (withies)
- The osier willow (Salix viminalis).
- A long flexible twig of the osier; a withe.
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| witting |
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noun
- (obsolete) knowledge, awareness
- Late C14: for his wyf was at a someres game, / Wií¾outen his wityng, he forsook hire eke. " Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" ll. 648-9, Canterbury Tales (Oxford 1988, p. 113)
verb
- (present participle of, wit)
adjective
- aware
- done consciously; intentional
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adjective (wittier, wittiest)
- (archaic) Possessing a strong intellect or intellectual capacity.
- Merlin was perhaps more than magical.
- Clever; amusingly ingenious.
- His speech was both and informative.
- Full of wit.
- His frequent quips mark him as particularly .
- quick of mind; insightful; in possession of wits
- She may have grown older, but she has grown no less .
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noun (feminine wizardess)
- (fantasy) One who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
- One who is especially skilled or unusually talented with a particular field.
- (computing) Computer program or script used to simplify complex operations for an inexperienced user.
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| wobbegong |
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noun
- Any of six species of bottom-dwelling carpet sharks in the Orectolobidae family, distinguished by their small vegetation-like flaps of skin around their mouth.
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| Wolf Cub |
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noun (plural Wolf Cubs)
- (context, mostly, british) A Cub Scout.
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| workhouse |
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noun
- a prison in which the sentence includes manual labour
- formerly, an institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish where the able-bodied were required to work
(wikipedia, Poor Law)
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| Worship |
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noun
- A form of address of a mayor and other dignitary, dignitaries
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| Worshipful |
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adjective - (British) a respectful form of address used in the name of livery companies (such as "The Worshipful Company of Scriveners")
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| wowser |
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noun
- A person with a strong moral views for temperance, abstinence, etc, and who promotes them generally or in particular seeks to impose them on other people. http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/ozwords/May_97/4._aussie_words.htm
- (obsolete) A lout or similar disruptive person.
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| wren |
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noun (plural wrens)
- Members of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae.
- Small bird of similar appearance to a true wren.
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| wholemeal |
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adjective
- (context, of bread or flour) containing or made from the whole grain
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