| 释义 |
Proddy, a. colloq. (chiefly Anglo-Irish).|ˈprɒdɪ|
Also proddy.
[f. Prod n.3 and a. + -y6.]
Protestant. Also Comb., as (children's slang) Proddy-hopper, Proddy-woddy; Proddy Dog (opp. Cat: Catholic).
1954W. K. Hancock Country & Calling i. 50 And they would sing: Proddy Dog, Proddy Dog, Sitting on a well, Up comes the Devil And pulls him down to hell. Then we and the Catholic boys would pelt each other with cowdung. 1958I. Cross God Boy 165 Proddy-hopper, proddy-hopper, go to hell. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xvi. 344 In Ireland, both north and south, Catholics are ‘Cathies’ and Protestants ‘Proddy-woddys’. Ibid., In Staines..R.C. children call the Protestants ‘Old Proddy Dogs’... They still call them ‘Proddy Dogs’ at Ilford. 1961Spectator 28 Apr. 603 In other streets Papist and Proddy schoolboys could pass in peace. 1968T. Parker People of Sheets 60 We always divided up into the same two sides, The Cats and The Proddy Dogs. 1975G. Seymour Harry's Game v. 76 Nice safe little billet..in a nice Proddy area... I'm not going..to sit on my arse in Proddyland. |