Definition of "wad"

Once we were all sat on the ground, drinking our tea and eating a cheese wad - that was all you could get - I asked where my mate Jackson was. Nobody had any idea but as he was required in the flight office we did a search.

2012 January 17, Deborah Lake, Growling Over The Oceans: Avro Shackleton: The Men and the Missions‎

All at once, Steven let out a loud gasp, as his cock jerked violently in his hand and sent wad after wad of hot white sperm shooting out all over his chest and stomach.

2000, Ian Cappell, The Awakening, London: Prowler Books

It's a strange thing this yellow liquid, the bodily fluid of a stranger. What was he thinking when he shot his wad? Is he somewhere now wondering about his sperm? Is he at this very moment wondering if a woman somewhere is inseminating with his seed? Well, we are! Here we are in Boston, and we are!

2003, Harlyn Aizley, Buying Dad: One Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor, Los Angeles, Calif.: Alyson Books, page 70

When a man "blows his wad," at least two different things could have occurred: he either spent or lost all his money in a wager (his wad), or he spent or ejaculated his sperm (his wad). Thorne goes on to suggest that since at least the 1950s "blow," in this context, is a euphemism for "ejaculate."

2001, Peter F. Murphy, Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, page 44

Grabbing hold of his throbbing organ, he started to turn away from her, had second thoughts, and proceeded to shoot his wad, ejaculate all over the sweating, sultry body that was stretched out, languishing at his feet.

2008, Chaucer Malone, Miguk, the Holy Man, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, page 490

[…] if you lay any fearnbrakes or other trash about them to entertain the moisture, and skreen it from the heat, let it not be wadded so close, or suffer’d to lie so long, as to contract any mustiness, but rather loose and easie, that the Air may have free intercourse, and to break the more intense ardours of the scorching Sun-beams.

1676, John Evelyn, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth‎, London: John Martyn, page 181

She stood just inside the door, wadding a black-bordered hand-kerchief in her small gloved hands […]

1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 11, in The Maltese Falcon‎, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 122

Mitch wadded the note, and tossed it over the cliff.

1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 10, column 1

She wadded Marian into her chair, which was lumpy with garments in progressive stages of dirtiness, and tucked a towel around her neck.

1969, Margaret Atwood, chapter 25, in The Edible Woman‎, New York: Popular Library, published 1976, page 228

[…] upon his Body were several Flannel Wastcoats, a Cassock of thick Cloth, with a thick wadded Gown, and about his Shoulders the Quilt which he had taken from off the Bed.

1721, John Midriff, Observations on the Spleen and Vapours, London: J. Roberts, pages 7–8

Could you believe it possible that through such a night as this they choose to sleep under those wadded cotton coverlets, and dread not instantaneous asphixiation?

1851, Richard Francis Burton, chapter 1, in Goa, and the Blue Mountains‎, London: Richard Bentley, page 11

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.

1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch‎, Book 2, Chapter 20

Wad was worth the equivalent of £1,300 a tonne, and some people felt it was worth risking a whipping to smuggle it out.

2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox, Sceptre, published 2003, page 96