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See also: Wadding
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɒdɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɑdɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɒdɪŋ
Etymology 1
From wad + -ing (“material, collection”).
Noun
wadding (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
wads collectively
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Etymology 2
Verb
wadding
- present participle and gerund of wad
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