paddy
see also: Paddy
Pronunciation
Paddy
Pronunciation Proper noun Noun
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see also: Paddy
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpædi/
paddy (plural paddies)
- Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested. [from 17th c.]
- 2011, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, The Story of Felanee:
- Taking out a handful of paddy the old woman exclaimed, “Look how good this paddy is! It is called Malbhog – it makes excellent puffed rice.”
- 2011, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, The Story of Felanee:
- A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown. [from 20th c.]
- French: paddy, riz paddy
- Italian: risone
- Russian: ри́с-па́дди
- Spanish: arroz con cáscara, arroz en cáscara
paddy
- (obsolete) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
- 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 […]
paddy (plural paddies)
- A fit of temper; a tantrum
- throw a paddy etc.
- 2013, Mike Brown, Adventures with Czech George (page 17)
- I like the story of the Emperor Frederick who got into a paddy with his cook, and shouted: 'I am the Emperor, and I want dumplings.'
- (AAVE, slang) A white person.
- (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
- A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.
Paddy
Pronunciation Proper noun Noun
paddy (plural Paddies)
- (slang, sometimes, offensive) An Irish person.
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