| 释义 |
ˈpad-foot dial.
[f. pad v.1 (n.1) + foot n.]
1. A dialectal equivalent of footpad.
1847Tom Treddlehoyle Bairnsla Ann. 41 (E.D.D.) Sitha, Bobby's catch't a padfooit. 1892J. S. Fletcher When Chas. was King (1896) 209 Here I am, winged in this way by some vile padfoot.
2. One of the dialect names of the goblin called the barghest. (Chiefly in Yorkshire.)
1736Drake Eboracum i. ii. 58 The Padfoot of Pontfrete, and the Barguest of York. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Pad-foot, A Ghost. 1865Baring-Gould Werewolves viii. 106 The Church-dog, bar-ghast, pad-foit, wash-hound, or by whatever name the animal supposed to haunt a churchyard is designated. 1883Almondbury & Huddersfield Gloss., Padfoot,..described as being something like a large sheep, or dog; sometimes to have rattled a chain, and been accustomed to accompany persons on their night walks, much as a dog might; keeping by their side, and making a soft noise with its feet—pad, pad, pad—whence its name. It had large eyes as big as ‘tea-plates’. |