pad
noun
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L15664 on Wikidata ↗verb
- expand with extra/unneeded items
- to fill
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /pæd/ / /pad/ / /pɛd/
intj
Etymology: Probably imitative, perhaps related to or influenced by Etymology 5, above.
- Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
“I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.”
noun
Etymology: Probably imitative, perhaps related to or influenced by Etymology 5, above.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
verb
Etymology: Probably partly from Middle Low German pat, partly imitative. Some senses possibly influenced by pad (“soft part of an animal's foot”, noun).
- To travel along (a road, path etc.).
“Padding the streets for half a crown.”
- To travel on foot.
- To wear a path by walking.
“Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]”
- To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
“Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out...”
- To practise highway robbery.
“Their chief Argument is, That they never saw any Witches, therefore there are none. Just as if you or I should say, We never met with any Robbers on the Road, therefore there never was any Padding there.”