Paddy Definition
pădē
paddies
noun
paddies
Rice in the husk, growing or gathered.
Webster's New World
Rice in general.
Webster's New World
A rice field.
Webster's New World
Used as a disparaging term for a person, especially a man, of Irish birth or ancestry.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
John Lothrop Motley.
Even after the expiration of four months the condition of the paddy persons continued most destitute. The English soldiers became mere barefoot starving beggars in the streets [...]
Wiktionary
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Wiktionary
pronoun
Other Word Forms of Paddy
Noun
Singular:
paddy
Plural:
paddiesOrigin of Paddy
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From Malay padi (“paddy plant"), from Proto-Malayic *padi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pajay, from Proto-Austronesian *pajay.
From Wiktionary
Nickname for Irish Gaelic Pádraig Patrick
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
English dialect paddy (“worm-eaten").
From Wiktionary
Malay padi
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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