padfoot
/ˈpadfʊt/(also padfooit) Chiefly English regional (northern )
noun
Also with capital initial. A large dog, variously said to be a ghost, spirit, or monster, supposed to guard graves and to terrify travellers.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Francis Drake (bap. 1696, d. 1771), antiquary and surgeon. Origin uncertain; perhaps from pad + foot.
- Bertillon, Alphonse
- Bertolucci, Bernardo
- be running on empty
- be run off one's feet
- be rushed (or run) off one's feet
- Berwickshire
- Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Berwyn
- beryl
- berylliosis
- beryllium
- Berzelius, Jöns Jakob
- Bes
- Besant, Annie
- Besançon
- be saved by the bell
- Beschloss, Michael
- beseech
- beseecher
- beseechingly
- be seeing double
- be seeing things
- beseem
- beset
- be set fair