To stand pad, verb. phr. (vagrants')—To beg by the wayside.
1862. H. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. iv. 24. Beggars . . . who stand pad with fakement and pretend to hide their faces.
1875. Letter [Ribton-Turner, Vagrants and Vagrancy, 642]. I obtained three children . . . for three shilling, . . . to stand pad with me . . . on a Saturday.
To pad round, verb. phr. (tailors').—To pay great attention to a customer; to cringe; to crawl.
Gentlemen of the pad. See Padder.
Pad in the straw, subs. phr. (old colloquial).—Anything amiss; danger concealed; 'a snake in the grass.'
1551. Still, Gammer Gurton's Needle, v. 2. Ye perceive by this lingring there is a pad in the straw.
15[?] Collier, Old Ballads [Halliwell]. Here lyes in dede the Padde within the strawe.
Pad-borrower, subs. phr. (old).
A horse thief.—Grose (1785).
Pad-clinking, subs. phr. (Old
Cant).—Hobnobbing with foot-pads.
1865. Kingsley, Hillyars and Burtons, xix. My pad-clinking . . . bucks, Good day.
Padded, subs. (old).—1. See Pad;
subs. sense 3.
2. in pl. (common).—Feet; boots, or shoes; see Creepers.
1828. Egan, Finish to Tom and Jerry, 309. My padders, my stampers, my buckets, otherwise my boots.
Padding-crib (or -ken), subs. phr.
(Old Cant).—A lodging house:
cf. doss-house.
1851. H. Mayhew, London Lab. i. 261. Others resort to the regular padding-kens, or houses of call for vagabonds.
1857. Snowden, Mag. Assist. 444, s.v.
1866. Temple Bar, xvi. 184. Let the spikes be what they may they were a great deal better than the padding-kens.
1883. Referee, 25 March, 1, 4. The hotel and lodging-house keepers, the proprietors Of padding-kens, . . . expect to make profit out of the race being held where it is to be held.
1889. Answers, 11 May, 374. Not long ago considerable disturbances took place at this very padden ken.
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, xiv. Before you can open a paddin-ken, you must get a licence from the charpering carsey which lasts for a stretch.
Paddington-fair, subs. (old).—A
hanging. [Tyburn being in Paddington
Parish]. To dance the
Paddington frisk = to be
hanged: see Ladder.—Dict.
Cant. Crew (1696); Grose (1785).
Paddington-spectacles, subs.
phr. (old).—The cap pulled over
the eyes of a criminal on the
scaffold: see Paddington-fair.
Paddle, subs. (common).—The
hand: see Daddle.
Verb. (common).—1. To drink: hence to have paddled = to be intoxicated: see Drinks and Screwed.
2. (venery).—To play with a woman; to mess about: see Firkytoodle.
1604. Shakspeare, Winter's Tale, i. 7. Paddling palms and pinching fingers.
1847. Halliwell, Dict., s.v. Paddle . . . etiam designat molliter manibus tractare aliquid et agitare, as to paddle in a ladies neck or bosom.
