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Paddy

noun

(pl. paddies)

(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent. Synonyms: Mick, Mickey.

An irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown. Synonyms: paddy field, rice paddy.

Rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field.

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"Paddy" Quotes from Famous Books

... Jove!" cried Quill; "but all true at the same time. There was a mess-mate of mine in the 'Roscommon' who never paid car-hire in his life. 'Head or harp, Paddy!' he would cry. 'Two tenpennies or nothing.' 'Harp, for the honor of ould Ireland!' was the invariable response, and my friend was equally sure to make head come uppermost; and, upon my soul, they seem to know the ...

— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... say, please your honour," said Peggy, "if it wouldn't be Paddy M'Grath's—Betty M'Gregor!" cried she, calling to a bare-footed girl, "whose cow ...

— Tales & Novels, Vol. IX - [Contents: Harrington; Thoughts on Bores; Ormond] • Maria Edgeworth

... servants and her little boy, who calls himself Lord Rossiter-Browne Hardy, and Neil Jerrold, when he is angry with him, "a little Yankee," while Neil promptly returns the compliment by calling him a "freckled-faced paddy." ...

— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes

... Here was Paddy on the western side of the Allegany Mountains, with his native accent and native wit as fresh and unimpaired as if he had but just left his green isle, and landed on one of the quays at Liverpool. But John Brough again declined the honour conferred upon him! Then it ...

— American Scenes, and Christian Slavery - A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States • Ebenezer Davies

... themselves on speaking good English, that is to the Welsh. Amongst themselves they discourse in their own Paddy Gwyddel." ...

— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow

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