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pad-nag, n.|ˈpædˈnæg|
[f. pad n.2 + nag.]
An ambling nag; an easy-going pad-horse.
1654Whitelocke Jrnl. Swed. Emb. (1772) II. 220 A sober..well-paced english padde nagge. 1684W. Pope Old Man's Wish ii. (Roxb. Ball. VI. 507), With a spacious plain, without hedge or stile, And an easy pad-nagg to ride out a mile. 1770Foote Lame Lover i. Wks. 1799 II. 60 To buy a pad-nag for a lady. a1845Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. iii. House-warming, As horse-litter, coach, and pad-nag, with its pillion..Defiled from the Strand. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 172 To procure an easy pad nag for his wife.
Hence ˌpad-ˈnag v. intr., to ride a pad-nag, ride at an easy pace, amble; also ˌpadˈnagging ppl. a.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. xl. 235 Will it not..give him pretence and excuse oftener than ever to pad-nag it hither? 1836P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 107 The green sub. of some padnagging regiment had walked off with my portmanteau instead of his own. |