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tongue-pad, n. slang or dial.|ˈtʌŋpæd|
[f. tongue n. + pad n.2 3, 4.]
A talkative person.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Tongue-pad, a smooth, Glib-tongued, insinuating Fellow. 1709O. Dykes Eng. Prov. & Refl. (ed. 2) 230 'Twas pleasant enough to hear two Tongue-Pads a-scolding, and giving one another the Lie. 1821Joseph the Book-Man 70 Determin'd every ear t'engage Thus spoke the tonguepad of a sage. 1882Jago Cornw. Gloss., Tongue-pad,..a chatterer, a very talkative person.
Hence ˈtongue-pad v., trans. to assail with words; to scold; also intr. (with it) to tattle, chatter; whence ˈtongue-padder = ? tongue-pad (see quot.); ˈtongue-padding vbl. n., scolding.
1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 422 They would all *Tongue-pad him at once. 1825Scott Betrothed xxx, My wife Gillian, who will tongue-pad it with any shrew in Christendom.
1676Warning for Housekprs. Title-p., Budg and Snudg, File-lifter, *Tongue-padder, The private Theif.
1876Whitby Gloss., Tongue-whaling, or *Tongue-padding, a scolding lecture. |