"Wadding" Pronounce,Meaning And Examples

"Wadding" Meaning

Wadding is a noun that has several related meanings:

1. Filling or padding, often used to make something thicker or more comfortable, such as a wadding in a coat or a wadding material used in pillows.
2. A layer of insulating material, such as wool or down feathers, used to keep something warm.
3. To walk waddingly or clumsily, meaning to move unsteadily or with a waddling gait, often due to being overladen or unwieldy.

Example sentences:

The shop sells wadding to stuff pillows with.
The cold wadding in the boots warmed her feet.
After eating an overlarge meal, she began to waddle down the street.

It can also be used in the context of:

1. Waddling, as in the gait or movement.
2. A wadder, a person who performs the waddling movement.
3. Wadding on the water, a term used to describe a sailing term, to steer a boat near the wind.

In the 16th century, a wadder could also be a trained bear who was dressed and performed imitations of human gait, hence the term "waddling upstage".

"Wadding" Examples

5 Examples of the Word "Wadding"

A great wadding of snow had to be shoveled out of the driveway after the storm.
The duvet was overflowing with a lot of soft wadding, making it a cozy comforter.
Over the long winter, the plant grew all covered in thick wadding of leaves.
Wadding through the crowds at the nightclub was a struggle, due to the tight security measures.
The firefighters had to carefully remove the wadding from the explosion and inspect it for evidence.