footpad

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The soft underside of an animal's paw.
  2. A medicated bandage for the treatment of corns and warts.
  3. A thief on foot who robs travellers on the road. archaic
    — The fraudulent clerk and the flash "cracksman" interchanged experiences. The smuggler's stories of lucky ventures and successful runs were capped by the footpad’s reminiscences of foggy nights and stolen watches.
  4. An unmade, minor walking trail formed only by foot traffic. Australia
    — Nemarluck, if wounded in the way described by the aborigines at Talc Head, will keep to the beaten footpad leading from Delissaville to the Finnis River, and in his weakened state, will not camp any night far from a waterhole or without a fire.
动词 v.
  1. To rob travellers on the road. archaic
    — When Mr. Kaiser was footpadded last December, the scare seemed to penetrate even the quiet town of Berkeley.
  2. To sneak on foot.
    — But the joke is on me, for they unmasked me by footpadding me to the alley and stealing my clothes and shoes.

词形变化

footpads plural foot-pad alternative foot pad alternative footpads present,singular,third-person footpadding participle,present footpadded participle,past footpadded past foot-pad alternative foot pad alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
footpaddery footpadism

词源

词源 1
From foot + pad.
词源 2
From foot + pad.
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