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footpadded

footpadded is the simple past and past participle of footpad.

Meaning of footpad

Verb

footpad (third-person singular simple present footpads, present participle footpadding, simple past and past participle footpadded)

  1. (archaic) To rob travellers on the road.
    • When Mr. Kaiser was footpadded last December, the scare seemed to penetrate even the quiet town of Berkeley.1894, The Blue and Gold - Volume 21, page 172
  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.1926, Charles Leroy Edson, "The Great American Ass": An Autobiography, page 313

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Adjective

footpadded (not comparable)

  1. Having footpads.
    • We intended here making some accomplished and beautiful quip about a tricycle taking a footpadded patient in tow, when we happily remembered that Thomas Hood, in his song concerning one suicidal Lieutenant Luff, originated the gout in tow wheeze, and marked it as his own.1884, Greendragon (pseud.), Sports spiced and pastimes peppered, by Greendragon and Dandelion
    • Footpadded and austere, a temperance leader, he slumps in torpid reverie over a sea of blistering dunes, yet easily is tamed, the Britannica says, because he's stupid.2015, Jonathan F. S. Post, A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht, →ISBN

Questions about footpadded

What does footpadded mean?
Footpadded means having footpads.
What is footpadded the simple past and past participle of?
Footpadded is the simple past and past participle of footpad.
What part of speech is footpadded?
Footpadded is an adjective.

Words near footpadded in the dictionary

  1. footnotes
  2. footnoting
  3. footpace
  4. footpaces
  5. footpad
  6. footpadded
  7. footpaddery
  8. footpadding
  9. footpaddings
  10. footpadism
  11. footpads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footpadded (page history and authors); footpad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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