tongue-pad, n. slang or dial.
(ˈtʌŋpæd)
[f. tongue n. + pad n.2 3, 4.]
A talkative person.
| a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Tongue-pad, a smooth, Glib-tongued, insinuating Fellow. 1709 O. Dykes Eng. Prov. & Refl. (ed. 2) 230 'Twas pleasant enough to hear two Tongue-Pads a-scolding, and giving one another the Lie. 1821 Joseph the Book-Man 70 Determin'd every ear t'engage Thus spoke the tonguepad of a sage. 1882 Jago 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.
| 1707 J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 422 They would all *Tongue-pad him at once. 1825 Scott Betrothed xxx, My wife Gillian, who will tongue-pad it with any shrew in Christendom. |
| 1676 Warning for Housekprs. Title-p., Budg and Snudg, File-lifter, *Tongue-padder, The private Theif. |
| 1876 Whitby Gloss., Tongue-whaling, or *Tongue-padding, a scolding lecture. |