| nowadays | (noun) the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech | Synonyms: present |
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| (adverb) in these times | Synonyms: now, today |
| swad | (noun) a bunch | - |
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| swaddle | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swathe |
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| tightwad | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: cheapskate |
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| twaddle | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle |
| twaddler | (noun) someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle | - |
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| wad | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid |
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| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum |
| (noun) a small mass of soft material | - |
| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram |
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, compact, pack |
| wadding | (noun) any material used especially to protect something | Synonyms: packing, packing material |
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| waddle | (noun) walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other | - |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, totter |
| waddler | (noun) someone who walks with a waddling gait | - |
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| wade | (verb) walk (through relatively shallow water) | - |
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| wader | (noun) any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food | Synonyms: wading bird |
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| waders | (noun) waterproof hip boots (sometimes extending to the chest) worn by anglers | - |
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| wadi | (noun) gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season | - |
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| wading | (noun) walking with your feet in shallow water | - |
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| wads | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons |
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