My housemate was very annoyed to find my friends padded out on the lounge room floor this morning.
If you pad out a piece of writing or a speech with unnecessary words or pieces of information, you include them in it to make it longer and hide the fact that you have not got very much to say. The reviewer padded out his review with a lengthy biography of the author
pad out
Turkish pronunciation
päd aut
Pronunciation
/ˈpad ˈout/ /ˈpæd ˈaʊt/
Etymology
[ 'pad ] (verb.) 1553. perhaps from Middle Dutch paden to follow a path, from pad path.