different between dadlike vs padlike

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dad +? -like

dadlike (comparative more dadlike, superlative most dadlike)

(informal) Befitting a dad; fatherly.
- 2008, Robert Engelman, More
  For most apes and probably for early hominids, we wouldn't expect much dadlike behavior.

pad +? -like

padlike (comparative more padlike, superlative most padlike)

Like a pad; having characteristics of a pad; cushionlike.
- 2004, Sara Douglass, Threshold, page 306:
  Small padlike feet appeared at the rim, and then the creature heaved itself out of the goblet and hopped away to the south-southeast.

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