IAmWithName2  +  961437 Wed, 04 Nov 09 01:04 PM Hi all,   In a letter by Katherine Mansfield I come across the following passage: 'When you came to tea this afternoon you took a brioche broke it in half & padded the inside doughy bit with two fingers'. Could you tell me what the 'you' in this sentence is doing? Does he (it is a 'he') merely put his fingers inside the brioche or does he turn the dough into a little ball? Or something else?   Greetings, John   IAmWithName2 Idioms, Vocabulary, Sentences, Context, Salutations

	Best answer by Avangi  +  961515 Wed, 04 Nov 09 02:24 PM It's an uncommon usage.  As you say, it usually means to "add padding" to something. We can use the name of the shape as a verb   -    "To make it into X's." "He balled it up." Avangi

	Avangi  +  961450 Wed, 04 Nov 09 01:25 PM Made it into a pad? Avangi Joined on Mon, Nov 19 2007 Veteran Member 8,171 ". . . le plaisir delicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile." - Henri de Regnier

	IAmWithName2  +  961460 Wed, 04 Nov 09 01:35 PM I see. So 'pad' can mean 'make into a pad'. That is what a colleague of mine thought, but I could not find any justification for it in my dictionaries, which suggest 'fill out or 'stuff'.   But thank you!   John IAmWithName2 Context