paddyn.¹

Brit.

/ˈpadi/, U.S.

/ˈpædi/

Forms: 1600s paddie, 1600s– paddy, 1700s pady, 1700s–1800s paddee, 1700s–1800s paddi, 1800s– padi.

Origin: A borrowing from Malay. Etymon: Malay padi.

Etymology: < Malay padi rice (especially unhusked). Compare Javanese pari (1580 as paree in a Javanese glossary appended to Sir Francis Drake's account of his voyage of 1577). With sense 2 compare scientific Latin Padda , former genus name (1850, although compare quot. 1743 at ricebird n. 3 for earlier currency of the form). Compare paddy bird n.Early currency of this word was perhaps encouraged by the existence of the synonymous (but etymologically distinct) word batty n.¹

a. Now frequently in form padi. Rough or unhusked rice ( Oryza sativa), either as a growing crop or when harvested but not yet threshed.

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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > rice

ricea1325

batty1598

paddy1623

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > rice > rice plant

ricec1450

paddy1623

1623 St. Papers, Col. 146 The people addict themselves wholly to the planting of paddie for their maintenance.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 244 Furlongs loaded with Rice or Paddy, being courser than the Indian.

1784 Ann. Reg. 1782 Hist. Europe 65/2 Collecting paddy, and beating the rice from the straw.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 490 His only remaining resource was in the paddy in the fields.

1868 Rep. Comm. Agric. 1867 174 The captain..presented him with a bag of ‘paddy’ or ‘rough rice’.

1893 F. A. Swettenham About Perak 41 The country for miles round Parit Buntar has been converted from jungle into fields of sugarcane and padi.

1931 Economist 19 Dec. 1168/2 Thousands of acres of paddy are being planted in isolated plots that were merely abandoned swamps.

1971 R. Russell tr. A. Ahmad Shore & Wave i. 9 Dotted about the plains are muddy bluish pools which from the air look like big pieces of blue glass set in the fields of green waving paddy.

2000 Z. Sardar Consumption Kuala Lumpur 170 Tok Umai cultivated vegetables, tapioca, maize and padi, and would go into the jungle to search for bamboo and rattan that he sold in the nearby market.

b. = paddy field n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > rice land or field

paddy field1763

sawah1783

rice paddy1825

paddy flat1880

paddy1904

rice bowl1940

1904 E. C. Garrett Philippine & Other Verses 17 Two good feet deep the waters lie In the paddies soggy bare.

1943 T. W. Lawson Thirty Seconds over Tokyo vii. 104 The coolies walked silently across fields, up and down hills and along narrow dykes enclosing checkerboard paddies.

1974 National Geographic Aug. 252 A tree-lined road cut through harvested grainfields and paddies resting under a crystal-blue sky.

1991 H. Rheingold Virtual Reality iii. x. 222 The old cliche about ‘land of contrasts’ tends to jump out at you when you see the rice paddies and microchip factories strung out along the railroad route.

†2. colloquial. = paddy bird n. Also: the feathers of such a bird (used decoratively). Obsolete. rare.In quot. 1777: the Java sparrow, Lonchura oryzivora (formerly Padda oryzivora); in quot. 1891, the feathers are more probably those of the egret.

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > member of genus Egretta (miscellaneous)

gaulina1705

aigrette1772

blue heron1777

paddy1777

matuku1843

paddy bird1843

switching necka1869

1777 G. Forster Voy. round World II. 568 Rice-birds, commonly called paddies (loxia oryzivora).

1879 H. N. Moseley Notes by Naturalist on ‘Challenger’ 182 The Sheath-bill... The birds (the ‘Paddy’ of the sealers) are present everywhere on the coast.

1891 Times 24 Oct. 13/2 Feathers... Short selected are dearer, white and gray paddy firm.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

paddy boat n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying food or water

water ship1653

paddy boat1698

pippiner1725

ark1809

beef-boat1836

forage-boat1848

fruiter1860

fruit-clipper1864

oranger1880

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 162 Two hundred Paddy-Boats with their Convoys.

1782 Ld. Macartney Let. 3 Mar. (1950) 33 The number of Vessels mentioned in the General's Letter are only Paddy Boats, 20 of which sailed from hence this Morning.

1875 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 4 429 Double canoes of this kind were used in New Zealand formerly, also in New Caledonia... Also in Ceylon, where it is called a paddy boat.

1982 Mod. Asian Stud. 16 486 By September Kishoreganj was reporting sporadic cases of looting of paddy boats and hats.

paddy clearing n.

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1904 N.E.D. at Paddy sb.¹ Paddy clearing.

paddy crop n.

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1862 B. Boake Let. 14 May in Fisherman's Mag. (1864) Apr. 19 Its whole surface is perfectly level, except where the natives have raised embankments for the purpose of regulating the supply of water to their paddy crops.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Sept. 6/2 The state of affairs..is due to..cultivators having oversold the paddy crop.

1992 Financial Sunday Express (New Delhi) 13 Sept. 5/5 In parts of Thane, paddy crop has been attacked by stem borer and blast.

paddy flat n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > rice land or field

paddy field1763

sawah1783

rice paddy1825

paddy flat1880

paddy1904

rice bowl1940

1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark vi. 354 They call these low swampy valleys on each side of a stream paddy flats, whether they are actually cultivated or not.

1955 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. Great Brit. & Irel. 85 54 Villages lie separated by hill ranges, usually as clusters of houses on the hillsides surrounding small wet paddy-flats in the valleys.

1989 O. V. Vijayan After the Hanging 110 A railway line lay beside the pond, and all round were paddy flats.

paddy grinding n.

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1904 N.E.D. at Paddy sb.¹ Paddy-grinding.

1997 Saigon Times Mag. (Nexis) 5 July In the future, the station will possibly become an industrial park for paddy grinding, and a power plant operated with husk, granaries and warehouses will be established here.

paddy rice n.

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1898 Cent. Mag. Aug. 559/1 A little corn is raised, mainly in the vicinity of Manila,..none is fed to stock, paddy rice being used for that purpose.

1993 Cage & Aviary Birds 13 Nov. 8/3 Five pairs of recently imported Madagascars (in 1989) refuse to eat white rice, brown rice, paddy rice, soaked rice, sprouted rice, and rice and curry.

paddy stalk n.

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1876 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 316 The paddy stalks were as tall as my waist, and in another week the crop would have been ready for the sickle.

1950 Harvard Jrnl. Asian Stud. 13 414 Paddy stalks are spread on the bed, to make it soft.

2002 Jakarta Post (Nexis) 28 Sept. Some of them even let their cattle eat paddy stalks in the rice fields.

paddy tax n.

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1892 Daily News 15 Mar. 3/1 The Secretary of State has informed the Governor of Ceylon that..the time has arrived for abolishing the paddy tax.

1992 Mod. Asian Stud. 26 335 A brilliant but paranoid individual, he had played a decisive part in the abolition of the paddy tax..and gained the reputation of a defender of the poor peasant.

paddy-ground adj.

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1904 N.E.D. at Paddy sb.¹ Paddy-ground.

C2.

paddy field n. a field where wet rice is grown.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > rice land or field

paddy field1763

sawah1783

rice paddy1825

paddy flat1880

paddy1904

rice bowl1940

1763 Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 417 You descend into the paddy, or rice fields.

1871 Athenæum 27 May 650 Mr. Cooper..was upset into a newly-flooded paddy-field by the great man's outriders.

1937 Discovery Jan. 7/2 Spacious padi fields.

1992 Independent 11 Feb. 13/5 This leech is more at home feeding on water buffalo in the paddy fields of south-east Asia than on a farm in Llanelli.

† paddy-insect n. Obsolete rare a kind of silkworm (perhaps of the genus Antheraea) found in Hainan, South China (see quot. 1892).

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1892 Nature 21 Jan. 286/2 A very strong silk is made from the grub called the ‘celestial silk-worm’, or, locally, ‘paddy-insect’. This grub is found on a sort of maple. When full-grown it is thrown into boiling vinegar, on which the ‘head’ of the gut, or ‘silk’, appears; this is sharply torn out with both hands.

paddy pounder n. a machine for removing the husk from rice.

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1851 Househ. Words 7 June 253/2 Tables, chatties, paddy-pounders..in one strange medley.

1880 Spons' Encycl. Industr. Arts II. 705 The dried pulp is then removed by pounding in common paddy pounders.

2001 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 8 Oct. e3 One young boy watched as his infant sibling was pulverized in a rice paddy pounder by soldiers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

paddyn.²

Brit.

/ˈpadi/, U.S.

/ˈpædi/

Forms: Also with capital initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Paddy.

Etymology: < Paddy (Irish Páidín), pet form of the male forename Patrick (Irish Pádraig).Patrick (Irish Pádraig ) is the name of the apostle and patron saint of Ireland (see patrick n.); it is one of the commonest Irish names.

1. colloquial.

a. Usually in form Paddy. An Irishman.Frequently used as a derogatory form of address.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland

IrishmanOE

Ireis1297

hooded mana1464

Mac1518

Irish1553

Teague?1661

bog-trotter1682

Milesian1682

dear joy1688

Teaguelander1689

paddy1714

bog-lander1736

bog-stalkera1758

brogueneer1758

paddywhack1773

Pat1796

West Briton1805

Irisher1807

Patlander1820

Greek1823

Mick1850

redneck1852

Grecian1853

mickeyc1854

Mike1859

harp1904

1714 in R. Steele Poetical Misc. 201 Poor Paddy swears his whole Week's Gains away.

1771 T. Bridges Adventures of Bank-note IV. iv. 45 This reverend Paddy had rode..from Chester.

1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 116 Paddies were swimming their horses in the sea to cure the mange.

1842 J. F. Cooper Two Admirals II. ix. 135 Daly's an Irishman, and has only to show himself to show a paddy.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 18 Mar. 8/1 We were surprised to see that our entire staff of office-boys had suddenly turned Paddies, wearing the green with a most becoming bonhomie.

1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ii. 29 ‘Stop yer bloomin' noise, Paddy!’.. And Pincher suffered no further inconvenience at the hands of Peter Flannagan.

1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy ii. 147 I admire you, for sticking up for your china, Paddy, but don't let that old Irish temper of yours run away in future.

1971 T. Murphy Whistle in Dark i. 16 Harry. You're not a Paddy? Michael. We're all Paddies and the British boys know it.

1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger vii. 115 It had been that paddy Sergeant McDevitt in Korea who'd shown Ding Chavez the light.

b. to come (the) paddy over: to dupe or hoodwink, by means of the supposed Irish talent for flattery or persuasive talk (cf. blarney n.).

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > play tricks [phrase]

to do or make a blenk or blencha1250

to play (a person) a pageant1530

to give one the geck1568

to play a paw1568

to draw through the water with a cat1631

come1714

to run one's rig upon1793

to come (the) paddy over1809

to work a traverse1840

to go on, have, take a lark1884

to pull a fast one1912

to take for a ride1925

to pull a person's pissera1935

to pull a person's chain1975

1809 A. B. Lindsley Love & Friendship i. i. 11 So says I, look here, capun Horner! dont think tewe come paddy over a Suffield boy.

1856 J. Pilgrim Ireland & Amer. ii. ii. 29 Oh, yes, you don't come paddy over me.

1896 A. Blair Rantin Robin 10 She's far mistaen gin she thinks to come Paddy ower oor neebor an' me that way.

1914 G. Fitzmaurice Moonlighter in Five Plays 65 Don't be striving to come paddy over me.

c. In form Paddy. A proprietary name for: an Irish whiskey. Hence more widely (also paddy): any Irish whiskey. Also: a drink of this.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > Irish whisky

Irish whiskey?1745

Irish1876

Jameson1922

paddy1925

1925 Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 Dec. 2827 Paddy... Whisky.

1971 J. Aiken Nightly Deadshade vii. 77 Milly is drinking port..and O'Grady, double Paddys.

1976 N. Freeling Lake Isle xx. 140 The drop of paddy's fearfully dear here. I've no opinion of the stuff the supermarket calls Scotch.

1989 Independent 26 Aug. 36 I was looking out the door of Sheehan's with a glass of Paddy in my hand.

2. colloquial. A bricklayer's or builder's labourer or assistant.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of walls > bricklayer > assistant

hodman1587

hod-carrier1771

cad1836

paddy1856

hodsman1863

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xvi. 282 The men were common masons, with paddies to help.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) A bricklayer's paddy..brings him bricks and mortar.

1969 D. Clark Death after Evensong iv. 115 We've seen the workmen..the joiner and his labourer..the brickie and his paddy.

3. English regional. = Paddywatch n. at Compounds 1. Now rare.

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the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > specific calendars

Gregorian Calendarc1275

Julian Calendarc1275

fastia1387

almanacc1392

prognostication1486

shepherd's calendar1506

ephemeris1559

perpetual almanac?1566

perpetual calendar1577

ephemeris1647

primstaff1662

rim-stock1662

parapegma1671

Poor Robin1708

menologium1709

menologion1727

rune-staff1753

Liberian Calendar1754

parapegm1755

timetable1758

prognosticator1779

Hindu calendar1795

Moore's Almanac1806

Moorea1821

numeral1853

Advent calendar1867

paddywhack almanac1875

paddy1876

Islamic calendar1912

1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. at Paddywatch Paddy,..an almanac.

1886 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 1 478/1 I have often heard [a1834]..‘Have you an almanac?’ and the answer has been, ‘We have a Paddy’.

4. U.S. colloquial. In form Paddy. The ruddy duck, Oxyura jamaicensis. Cf. paddywhack n. 2. Now rare.

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > erismatura rubida (ruddy duck)

pintail1674

saltwater or brown diving teal1678

ruddy goose1785

ruddy duck1800

dun diver1844

stick-tail1844

pin-tailed duck1851

ruddy1877

rudder duck1884

fool duck1888

hardhead1888

paddy1888

paddywhack1888

steel-head1888

hardhead1893

rudder bird1894

1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds xxxi. 112 Ruddy Duck... At Newberne, N.C., Paddy and Noddy.

1895 S. A. Forbes in R. Ridgway Ornithol. Illinois II. i. 185 Ruddy Duck..[is called] Hickory-head, Greaser, Paddy, Noddy, Paddy-whack, [etc.].

1917 T. G. Pearson Birds of Amer. I. 152 Other names [of the ruddy duck are]..Paddy-whack; Stub-and-Twist;..Dinky; Dinkey; Paddy.

1944 L. A. Hausman Amer. Birds i. 152 Paddy... See Duck, Ruddy.

5. colloquial. A fit of temper, a rage; a hot temper. Esp. in in a paddy. Cf. paddywhack n. 4.

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the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > fit(s) or outburst(s) of anger

wratha1200

wrethea1400

hatelc1400

angerc1425

braida1450

fumea1529

passion1530

fustian fume1553

ruff1567

pelt1573

spleen1590

blaze1597

huff1599

blustera1616

dog-flawa1625

overboiling1767

explosion1769

squall1807

blowout1825

flare-up1837

fit1841

bust-up1842

wax1854

Scot1859

pelter1861

ructions1862

performance1864

outfling1865

rise1877

detonation1878

flare-out1879

bait1882

paddy1894

paddywhack1899

wingding1927

wing-dinger1933

eppie1987

1894 G. A. Henty Dorothy's Double I. 132 They goes out looking red in the face, and in a regular paddy.

1929 J. Owen Shepherd & Child i. 14 Tristina went—and that without pulling the door behind her ‘in a paddy’, as she would have done if the order had come from Miss Trellis.

1933 E. Partridge Words, Words, Words! i. 9 Both Irish and the colloquial Paddy are used for anger.

1959 ‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder v. 56 It was my awful temper. I used to get into the biggest paddies when I was a kiddie.

1975 J. Cowley Mandrake Root (1976) xvi. 280 You're a pigheaded Stilwell... Got a real paddy when you let go.

1991 A. Campbell Sidewinder v. 69 I could see that old Sidewinder was working himself into a paddy, so I decided it was healthier to back-pedal.

6. A type of drill with expanding cutters (see quot. 1895).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill > other drills

jumper1769

screw drill1821

stop-drill1843

hand drill1845

Swiss drill1846

traverse-drill1853

crown borer1854

pin drill1858

foot drill1860

perforator1861

pin-bit1873

Archimedean drill1889

paddy1895

stope drill1908

stem1914

screw gun1945

1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. 1262/3 Paddy, a well-boring drill having cutters that expand on pressure; paddy-drill.

1960 A. E. Long Gloss. Diamond-drilling Industry 66/2 Paddy, a borehole drill bit having cutters that expand on pressure. Also called Expansion bit, Paddy bit.

7. Railways slang. A train for conveying coal from a pithead. Now historical.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > goods train > coal train

coaler1898

paddy1927

paddy mail1945

1927 Dict. Occup. Terms (Ministry of Labour) §043 Paddy Train Conductor.

1965 H. Sheppard Dict. Railway Slang 8 Paddy, colliery train from mine to railhead.

1971 D. J. Smith Discovering Railwayana x. 58 Paddy, train conveying coal from the pithead to distant sidings.

1977 Guardian Weekly 4 Dec. 19/4 Once out of the cage, there was a quarter of a mile to walk over pit railway sleepers, dodging heavy equipment, to the ‘paddy’ whose proper name is ‘the endless rope haulage manrider’.

8. slang. Also Paddy. Originally and chiefly in African-American usage; also among Hispanic Americans: a white person.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun]

white mana1398

Christian1622

European1666

white-face1684

long knife1784

buckra1794

sahib1796

white-skin1803

whitey1811

Pakeha1817

papalagi1817

paleface1823

whitefellow1826

Abelungu1836

haole1843

gringo1849

lightiea1855

umlungu1859

mzungu1860

heaven-burster1861

ladino1877

mooniasc1880

Conchy Joe1888

béké1889

ofay1899

ridge runner1904

Ngati Pakeha1905

kelch1912

pink1913

leucoderm1924

fay1927

Mr Charlie1928

pinkie1935

devil1938

wonk1938

oaf1941

grey1943

paddy1945

Caucasoid1956

Jumble1957

Caucasian1958

white boy1958

pinko-grey1964

honky1967

toubab1976

palagi1977

1945 C. B. Himes If he hollers let him Go 7 I'd have busted him wide open because he was a paddy and needed busting.

1962 H. Simmons Man walking on Eggshells ii. xxii. 162 A lot of paddy studs still didn't know that boots were human.

1972 J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) xiv. 241 Paddy hustling was always a Negro flimflam and that's where the name came from, but lately I've seen white hustlers using this scam on other paddies.

1980 J. L. Gwaltney Dryslongso (1981) 19 Paddies can't stand us and we don't think a hell of a lot of them.

1992 S. Straight Been in Sorrow's Kitchen 66 Why you want to sit with paddies anyway?

Compounds

C1. Compounds with Paddy.

Paddy Doyle n. Services' slang (confinement in) a cell or detention barracks; esp. in to do Paddy Doyle.

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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun]

prisonOE

wardc1290

prisoning1344

keepingc1384

imprisonment1389

prisonment1422

jail1447

fasteningc1460

warding1497

firmancea1522

incarcerationc1540

imprisoningc1542

limbo1590

limbus?a1600

endurance1610

jailing1622

restraint1829

carceration1870

holiday1901

Paddy Doyle1919

bird1924

1919 War Slang in Athenæum 8 Aug. 787/2 When doing C.B... he [sc. the soldier] was doing ‘jankers’ or ‘Paddy Doyle’.

1932 E. Weekley Words & Names xii. 174 Doing ‘Paddy Doyle’ as a euphemism for doing ‘time’ in the cells.

1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 136 Paddy Doyle, a lower-deck term for ‘detention cell’—singular or collective.

Paddyland n. slang (derogatory) Ireland.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Ireland > [noun]

Western Isle1557

shamrockshire1689

Teagueland1689

Wolfland1692

Green Island1797

Green Isle1812

the (old) sod1812

Paddyland1828

(is)land of saints1888

1828 T. Moore Brunswick Echoes in Times 18 Oct. 2/6 In the bogs of old Paddy-land.

1952 P. Larkin Let. 18 July in Sel. Lett. (1992) 186 The next month will be very peaceful & quiet, I hope: except for expensive trips to Paddyland.

2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 30 June 13 His tour of the counties of Ireland, plods relentlessly on, the contours of Paddyland become ever more precise.

Paddy lucerne n. [ < paddy n.² + lucerne n.²; for an alternative etymology deriving the first element from paddy n.¹ see quot. 1958] Australian = Paddy's lucerne n. at Compounds 2.

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1888 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 3 391 Sida rhombifolia..called ‘Paddy lucerne’ on the Richmond and Clarence Rivers, New South Wales, and ‘Lucerne’ in other parts of the colony (cows being very fond of it).

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Paddy lucern, a tropical malvaceous weed (sida rhombifolia) introduced into Australia, where it is a pest in some localities. It yields a coarse fiber.

1958 J. N. Whittet Weeds (1968) 319 In India, paddy lucerne was one of the so-called ‘hemps’ which were grown and sent to Europe... By reason of its invasion of paddy (rice) fields, the name paddy lucerne was applied to the weed.

paddy mail n. Mining slang (now historical) = sense 7.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > goods train > coal train

coaler1898

paddy1927

paddy mail1945

1945 Penguin New Writing 23 85 Colliers were drawn toward it from all the surrounding parts. His mate, Ron Loss, came in by the paddy-mail.

1995 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Sept. 6 A navvies' shanty town called Dawson City sprang up on the Bronte moors and the daily ‘Paddy Mail’ took workers up to the dams.

paddy wagon n. slang (originally U.S.) a police van or car.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > van > police van

pie wagon1904

paddy wagon1909

Black Maria1924

pickup van1941

meat wagon1949

squadrol1961

1909 Chicago Tribune 12 Sept. v. 3/1 Don't it make you think of the paddy wagon going down the street to pinch a gambling joint?

2005 H. G. Lefever Undaunted by Fight xi. 118 Just before the officer closed the paddy wagon door he filmed the six Riders seated inside.

Paddywatch n. English regional (now rare) one of several 19th-cent. unlicensed almanacs (cf. sense 3, and paddywhack n. 1b).

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1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Paddywatch,..an almanac.

Paddy Wester n. slang a bogus seaman, esp. one using a dead sailor's papers; an inefficient or inexperienced seaman.

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > inefficient, lazy, or unseamanlike sailor

lubber1579

guinea pig1748

marine1829

soldier1840

lubbard1867

Paddy Wester1892

ullage1901

oily wad1925

1892 Boy's Own Paper 28 May 549/1 At the last moment a number of ‘Paddy Westers’ had shipped as substitutes for men previously engaged under the superintendence of the chief mate.

1927 F. H. Shaw Knocking Around xiii. 125 He was not an actual Paddy-Wester, but he had sailed shipmates with many of them.

1938 W. E. Dexter Rope-yarns 125 They had a pack of fake seamen sailing on dead men's discharges—a crew of ‘Paddy Westers’.

C2. Compounds with Paddy's.

Paddy's Day n. St Patrick's Day (17 March).

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1762 G. Stayley Life & Opinions Actor II. vi. 145 Benefits in Ireland, I think, generally commence about Paddy's Day; whether in Honour of the Saint or not, I cannot say.

1875 Georgia Tel. (Macon) 16 Feb. ‘In what year were you born?’ ‘In 1805—17th of March.’ ‘Paddy's day.’

1943 J. Mitchell McSorley's 19 The Paddy's Day parade, two years ago.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Mar. b7 We used to have a big parade there every St. Paddy's Day. I don't know about here. It's okay though, the people are having fun.

1993 World & I Mar. 167/2 Northern Ireland lacks anything equivalent to a Paddy's Day shindig in Dublin or New York.

Paddy's hurricane n. Nautical slang (now historical) a flat calm.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > complete absence of wind

calmness1516

calm1517

malace1623

clock-calm1777

Irishman's hurricane1803

Paddy's hurricane1819

airlessness1831

Irish hurricanea1835

windlessness1916

1819 A. Welby Jrnl. 10 May in Visit to N. Amer. (1821) 6 We are now first experiencing a calm attended by a heavy swell of the sea:—the sailors call this ‘Paddy's Hurricane’.

1856 Ballou's Dollar Monthly Mag. Oct. 321 What little air there was stirring being like paddy's hurricane, right up and down.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 514 Paddy's hurricane, not wind enough to float the pennant.

1903 A. Sonnichsen Deep Sea Vagabonds vii. 114 The winds here never blew at all, or, after the manner of Paddy's hurricane, up and down.

1958 J. G. R. Bisset Sail Ho! v. 48 A dead calm was known as ‘Paddy's hurricane’.

Paddy's lantern n. colloquial the moon.

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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [noun]

moonOE

Diana1398

Hecatec1420

lady of the night1480

luna?1499

Lucina?1504

Phoebe1600

queen of the night?1610

mother of months1613

noctiluca1623

Cynthia1645

Oliver?1747

star-queen1818

Paddy's lantern1834

parish lantern1847

night-sun1855

1834 Johnstone's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 484/1 The hollows seem as dark as night: Tho' Paddy's lantern has been lit.

1933 P. A. Eaddy Hull Down v. 104 Work round the deck and up aloft is a hundred times easier when ‘Paddy's Lantern’ is hung out.

1969 L. Murray Coll. Poems (1991) 22 Long before dawn, I rose by Paddy's Lantern, lit up my own and walked through miles of dew with my striding shadow.

Paddy's lucerne n. Australian a tropical evergreen shrub, Sida rhombifolia, of the mallow family, originally introduced into Australia as a fodder crop and fibre plant, now a serious weed (also called Queensland hemp).

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1896 A. Mackay Austral. Agriculturist (rev. ed.) 120 The ‘paddy's lucerne’ of colonial farming populations, is one of the best known fibre-yielders.

1965 Austral. Encycl. VIII. 127/2 Paddy's lucerne is so tough and difficult to eradicate that it is reckoned one of the most formidable weed-pests in warmer parts of the Commonwealth.

2002 Illawarra Mercury (Austral.) (Nexis) 14 Dec. 25 Weeds, mainly Paddy's lucerne also proved a nuisance.

Paddy's pig n. freq. derogatory (originally and chiefly U.S.) the epitome of Irishness; esp. in as Irish as Paddy's pig.

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1916 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 23 Feb. ‘You sound Hibernian.’ ‘I am as Irish as Paddy's pig, and proud of it.’

1974 I. Agnew Loner 185 There's one who reminds me of Crawford from the Dunedin gaol—as ignorant as Paddy's pig.

1998 Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald (Nexis) 1 Nov. 4 b I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig with Irish immigrant roots deep in Holt County.

† Paddy's watch n. Obsolete = Paddywatch n. at Compounds 1.

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1886 Notes & Queries 12 June 478/1 There was a heavy stamp duty on almanacs, and the law was evaded by the surreptitious sale of a shabbily printed sheet called popularly a ‘Paddy's Watch’.

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paddyadj.¹

A misreading by J. L. Motley of baddy in a 16th-cent. letter by T. Digges (see quot. 1586 at baddy adj.), followed by Webster (1864) and some later dictionaries.

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1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands I. vii. 393 The condition of the paddy persons continued most destitute.

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paddyadj.²

Brit.

/ˈpadi/, U.S.

/ˈpædi/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pad n.², -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < pad n.² + -y suffix¹.

Resembling a pad; soft, plump, cushiony. Also in extended use: mild, gentle, good-natured.

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > self-satisfaction > [adjective]

smug1551

fat1598

self-contented1631

self-pleased1633

self-satisfied1653

self-contenta1656

self-complacent1736

self-gratulating1755

complacent1767

well1773

self-congratulatory1798

comfortable1856

paddy1865

Podsnappian1866

cosy1927

the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > complacency > [adjective]

fat1598

self-contented1631

self-pleased1633

self-satisfied1653

self-contenta1656

complacing1669

self-complacentiala1711

self-complacinga1711

self-complacent1736

complacent1767

pinguid1768

unctuous1822

paddy1865

the world > animals > mammals > [adjective] > of parts of > having pads (of feet)

paddy1958

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > not harsh or gentle

meekc1230

nesha1250

tender1340

softa1398

sober1455

gentle1508

silken1601

milken1648

rose water1837

paddy1962

1865 C. M. Yonge Clever Woman II. iii. 38 A pair of plump, paddy-looking old friends.

1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House II. xix. 156 The paddy good-natured face in bed.

1958 L. M. Boston Chimneys of Green Knowe 132 He was woken by Orlando's whiskery face poking him in the ear, and a paddy foot on his eyelid.

1962 N. Marsh Hand in Glove ii. 53 The impressive things about Sergeant Raikes were his size and his mildness... He said: ‘Good afternoon, miss,’ in a loud but paddy voice.

2002 Australian (Nexis) 29 Apr. 4 The soft paddy land of the field absorbs bombs very nicely.

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n.¹1623

n.²1714

adj.¹1860

adj.²1865

单词	paddy
释义	paddyn.¹ Brit. /ˈpadi/, U.S. /ˈpædi/ Forms: 1600s paddie, 1600s– paddy, 1700s pady, 1700s–1800s paddee, 1700s–1800s paddi, 1800s– padi. Origin: A borrowing from Malay. Etymon: Malay padi. Etymology: < Malay padi rice (especially unhusked). Compare Javanese pari (1580 as paree in a Javanese glossary appended to Sir Francis Drake's account of his voyage of 1577). With sense 2 compare scientific Latin Padda , former genus name (1850, although compare quot. 1743 at ricebird n. 3 for earlier currency of the form). Compare paddy bird n.Early currency of this word was perhaps encouraged by the existence of the synonymous (but etymologically distinct) word batty n.¹ 1. a. Now frequently in form padi. Rough or unhusked rice ( Oryza sativa), either as a growing crop or when harvested but not yet threshed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > rice ricea1325 batty1598 paddy1623 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > rice > rice plant ricec1450 paddy1623 1623 St. Papers, Col. 146 The people addict themselves wholly to the planting of paddie for their maintenance. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 244 Furlongs loaded with Rice or Paddy, being courser than the Indian. 1784 Ann. Reg. 1782 Hist. Europe 65/2 Collecting paddy, and beating the rice from the straw. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 490 His only remaining resource was in the paddy in the fields. 1868 Rep. Comm. Agric. 1867 174 The captain..presented him with a bag of ‘paddy’ or ‘rough rice’. 1893 F. A. Swettenham About Perak 41 The country for miles round Parit Buntar has been converted from jungle into fields of sugarcane and padi. 1931 Economist 19 Dec. 1168/2 Thousands of acres of paddy are being planted in isolated plots that were merely abandoned swamps. 1971 R. Russell tr. A. Ahmad Shore & Wave i. 9 Dotted about the plains are muddy bluish pools which from the air look like big pieces of blue glass set in the fields of green waving paddy. 2000 Z. Sardar Consumption Kuala Lumpur 170 Tok Umai cultivated vegetables, tapioca, maize and padi, and would go into the jungle to search for bamboo and rattan that he sold in the nearby market. b. = paddy field n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > rice land or field paddy field1763 sawah1783 rice paddy1825 paddy flat1880 paddy1904 rice bowl1940 1904 E. C. Garrett Philippine & Other Verses 17 Two good feet deep the waters lie In the paddies soggy bare. 1943 T. W. Lawson Thirty Seconds over Tokyo vii. 104 The coolies walked silently across fields, up and down hills and along narrow dykes enclosing checkerboard paddies. 1974 National Geographic Aug. 252 A tree-lined road cut through harvested grainfields and paddies resting under a crystal-blue sky. 1991 H. Rheingold Virtual Reality iii. x. 222 The old cliche about ‘land of contrasts’ tends to jump out at you when you see the rice paddies and microchip factories strung out along the railroad route. †2. colloquial. = paddy bird n. Also: the feathers of such a bird (used decoratively). Obsolete. rare.In quot. 1777: the Java sparrow, Lonchura oryzivora (formerly Padda oryzivora); in quot. 1891, the feathers are more probably those of the egret. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > member of genus Egretta (miscellaneous) gaulina1705 aigrette1772 blue heron1777 paddy1777 matuku1843 paddy bird1843 switching necka1869 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World II. 568 Rice-birds, commonly called paddies (loxia oryzivora). 1879 H. N. Moseley Notes by Naturalist on ‘Challenger’ 182 The Sheath-bill... The birds (the ‘Paddy’ of the sealers) are present everywhere on the coast. 1891 Times 24 Oct. 13/2 Feathers... Short selected are dearer, white and gray paddy firm. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. paddy boat n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying food or water water ship1653 paddy boat1698 pippiner1725 ark1809 beef-boat1836 forage-boat1848 fruiter1860 fruit-clipper1864 oranger1880 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 162 Two hundred Paddy-Boats with their Convoys. 1782 Ld. Macartney Let. 3 Mar. (1950) 33 The number of Vessels mentioned in the General's Letter are only Paddy Boats, 20 of which sailed from hence this Morning. 1875 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 4 429 Double canoes of this kind were used in New Zealand formerly, also in New Caledonia... Also in Ceylon, where it is called a paddy boat. 1982 Mod. Asian Stud. 16 486 By September Kishoreganj was reporting sporadic cases of looting of paddy boats and hats. paddy clearing n. ΚΠ 1904 N.E.D. at Paddy sb.¹ Paddy clearing. paddy crop n. ΚΠ 1862 B. Boake Let. 14 May in Fisherman's Mag. (1864) Apr. 19 Its whole surface is perfectly level, except where the natives have raised embankments for the purpose of regulating the supply of water to their paddy crops. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Sept. 6/2 The state of affairs..is due to..cultivators having oversold the paddy crop. 1992 Financial Sunday Express (New Delhi) 13 Sept. 5/5 In parts of Thane, paddy crop has been attacked by stem borer and blast. paddy flat n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > rice land or field paddy field1763 sawah1783 rice paddy1825 paddy flat1880 paddy1904 rice bowl1940 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark vi. 354 They call these low swampy valleys on each side of a stream paddy flats, whether they are actually cultivated or not. 1955 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. Great Brit. & Irel. 85 54 Villages lie separated by hill ranges, usually as clusters of houses on the hillsides surrounding small wet paddy-flats in the valleys. 1989 O. V. Vijayan After the Hanging 110 A railway line lay beside the pond, and all round were paddy flats. paddy grinding n. ΚΠ 1904 N.E.D. at Paddy sb.¹ Paddy-grinding. 1997 Saigon Times Mag. (Nexis) 5 July In the future, the station will possibly become an industrial park for paddy grinding, and a power plant operated with husk, granaries and warehouses will be established here. paddy rice n. ΚΠ 1898 Cent. Mag. Aug. 559/1 A little corn is raised, mainly in the vicinity of Manila,..none is fed to stock, paddy rice being used for that purpose. 1993 Cage & Aviary Birds 13 Nov. 8/3 Five pairs of recently imported Madagascars (in 1989) refuse to eat white rice, brown rice, paddy rice, soaked rice, sprouted rice, and rice and curry. paddy stalk n. ΚΠ 1876 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 316 The paddy stalks were as tall as my waist, and in another week the crop would have been ready for the sickle. 1950 Harvard Jrnl. Asian Stud. 13 414 Paddy stalks are spread on the bed, to make it soft. 2002 Jakarta Post (Nexis) 28 Sept. Some of them even let their cattle eat paddy stalks in the rice fields. paddy tax n. ΚΠ 1892 Daily News 15 Mar. 3/1 The Secretary of State has informed the Governor of Ceylon that..the time has arrived for abolishing the paddy tax. 1992 Mod. Asian Stud. 26 335 A brilliant but paranoid individual, he had played a decisive part in the abolition of the paddy tax..and gained the reputation of a defender of the poor peasant. b. paddy-ground adj. ΚΠ 1904 N.E.D. at Paddy sb.¹ Paddy-ground. C2. paddy field n. a field where wet rice is grown. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > rice land or field paddy field1763 sawah1783 rice paddy1825 paddy flat1880 paddy1904 rice bowl1940 1763 Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 417 You descend into the paddy, or rice fields. 1871 Athenæum 27 May 650 Mr. Cooper..was upset into a newly-flooded paddy-field by the great man's outriders. 1937 Discovery Jan. 7/2 Spacious padi fields. 1992 Independent 11 Feb. 13/5 This leech is more at home feeding on water buffalo in the paddy fields of south-east Asia than on a farm in Llanelli. † paddy-insect n. Obsolete rare a kind of silkworm (perhaps of the genus Antheraea) found in Hainan, South China (see quot. 1892). ΚΠ 1892 Nature 21 Jan. 286/2 A very strong silk is made from the grub called the ‘celestial silk-worm’, or, locally, ‘paddy-insect’. This grub is found on a sort of maple. When full-grown it is thrown into boiling vinegar, on which the ‘head’ of the gut, or ‘silk’, appears; this is sharply torn out with both hands. paddy pounder n. a machine for removing the husk from rice. ΚΠ 1851 Househ. Words 7 June 253/2 Tables, chatties, paddy-pounders..in one strange medley. 1880 Spons' Encycl. Industr. Arts II. 705 The dried pulp is then removed by pounding in common paddy pounders. 2001 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 8 Oct. e3 One young boy watched as his infant sibling was pulverized in a rice paddy pounder by soldiers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). paddyn.² Brit. /ˈpadi/, U.S. /ˈpædi/ Forms: Also with capital initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Paddy. Etymology: < Paddy (Irish Páidín), pet form of the male forename Patrick (Irish Pádraig).Patrick (Irish Pádraig ) is the name of the apostle and patron saint of Ireland (see patrick n.); it is one of the commonest Irish names. 1. colloquial. a. Usually in form Paddy. An Irishman.Frequently used as a derogatory form of address. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland IrishmanOE Ireis1297 hooded mana1464 Mac1518 Irish1553 Teague?1661 bog-trotter1682 Milesian1682 dear joy1688 Teaguelander1689 paddy1714 bog-lander1736 bog-stalkera1758 brogueneer1758 paddywhack1773 Pat1796 West Briton1805 Irisher1807 Patlander1820 Greek1823 Mick1850 redneck1852 Grecian1853 mickeyc1854 Mike1859 harp1904 1714 in R. Steele Poetical Misc. 201 Poor Paddy swears his whole Week's Gains away. 1771 T. Bridges Adventures of Bank-note IV. iv. 45 This reverend Paddy had rode..from Chester. 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 116 Paddies were swimming their horses in the sea to cure the mange. 1842 J. F. Cooper Two Admirals II. ix. 135 Daly's an Irishman, and has only to show himself to show a paddy. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 18 Mar. 8/1 We were surprised to see that our entire staff of office-boys had suddenly turned Paddies, wearing the green with a most becoming bonhomie. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ii. 29 ‘Stop yer bloomin' noise, Paddy!’.. And Pincher suffered no further inconvenience at the hands of Peter Flannagan. 1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy ii. 147 I admire you, for sticking up for your china, Paddy, but don't let that old Irish temper of yours run away in future. 1971 T. Murphy Whistle in Dark i. 16 Harry. You're not a Paddy? Michael. We're all Paddies and the British boys know it. 1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger vii. 115 It had been that paddy Sergeant McDevitt in Korea who'd shown Ding Chavez the light. b. to come (the) paddy over: to dupe or hoodwink, by means of the supposed Irish talent for flattery or persuasive talk (cf. blarney n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > play tricks [phrase] to do or make a blenk or blencha1250 to play (a person) a pageant1530 to give one the geck1568 to play a paw1568 to draw through the water with a cat1631 come1714 to run one's rig upon1793 to come (the) paddy over1809 to work a traverse1840 to go on, have, take a lark1884 to pull a fast one1912 to take for a ride1925 to pull a person's pissera1935 to pull a person's chain1975 1809 A. B. Lindsley Love & Friendship i. i. 11 So says I, look here, capun Horner! dont think tewe come paddy over a Suffield boy. 1856 J. Pilgrim Ireland & Amer. ii. ii. 29 Oh, yes, you don't come paddy over me. 1896 A. Blair Rantin Robin 10 She's far mistaen gin she thinks to come Paddy ower oor neebor an' me that way. 1914 G. Fitzmaurice Moonlighter in Five Plays 65 Don't be striving to come paddy over me. c. In form Paddy. A proprietary name for: an Irish whiskey. Hence more widely (also paddy): any Irish whiskey. Also: a drink of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > Irish whisky Irish whiskey?1745 Irish1876 Jameson1922 paddy1925 1925 Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 Dec. 2827 Paddy... Whisky. 1971 J. Aiken Nightly Deadshade vii. 77 Milly is drinking port..and O'Grady, double Paddys. 1976 N. Freeling Lake Isle xx. 140 The drop of paddy's fearfully dear here. I've no opinion of the stuff the supermarket calls Scotch. 1989 Independent 26 Aug. 36 I was looking out the door of Sheehan's with a glass of Paddy in my hand. 2. colloquial. A bricklayer's or builder's labourer or assistant. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of walls > bricklayer > assistant hodman1587 hod-carrier1771 cad1836 paddy1856 hodsman1863 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xvi. 282 The men were common masons, with paddies to help. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) A bricklayer's paddy..brings him bricks and mortar. 1969 D. Clark Death after Evensong iv. 115 We've seen the workmen..the joiner and his labourer..the brickie and his paddy. 3. English regional. = Paddywatch n. at Compounds 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > specific calendars Gregorian Calendarc1275 Julian Calendarc1275 fastia1387 almanacc1392 prognostication1486 shepherd's calendar1506 ephemeris1559 perpetual almanac?1566 perpetual calendar1577 ephemeris1647 primstaff1662 rim-stock1662 parapegma1671 Poor Robin1708 menologium1709 menologion1727 rune-staff1753 Liberian Calendar1754 parapegm1755 timetable1758 prognosticator1779 Hindu calendar1795 Moore's Almanac1806 Moorea1821 numeral1853 Advent calendar1867 paddywhack almanac1875 paddy1876 Islamic calendar1912 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. at Paddywatch Paddy,..an almanac. 1886 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 1 478/1 I have often heard [a1834]..‘Have you an almanac?’ and the answer has been, ‘We have a Paddy’. 4. U.S. colloquial. In form Paddy. The ruddy duck, Oxyura jamaicensis. Cf. paddywhack n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > erismatura rubida (ruddy duck) pintail1674 saltwater or brown diving teal1678 ruddy goose1785 ruddy duck1800 dun diver1844 stick-tail1844 pin-tailed duck1851 ruddy1877 rudder duck1884 fool duck1888 hardhead1888 paddy1888 paddywhack1888 steel-head1888 hardhead1893 rudder bird1894 1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds xxxi. 112 Ruddy Duck... At Newberne, N.C., Paddy and Noddy. 1895 S. A. Forbes in R. Ridgway Ornithol. Illinois II. i. 185 Ruddy Duck..[is called] Hickory-head, Greaser, Paddy, Noddy, Paddy-whack, [etc.]. 1917 T. G. Pearson Birds of Amer. I. 152 Other names [of the ruddy duck are]..Paddy-whack; Stub-and-Twist;..Dinky; Dinkey; Paddy. 1944 L. A. Hausman Amer. Birds i. 152 Paddy... See Duck, Ruddy. 5. colloquial. A fit of temper, a rage; a hot temper. Esp. in in a paddy. Cf. paddywhack n. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > fit(s) or outburst(s) of anger wratha1200 wrethea1400 hatelc1400 angerc1425 braida1450 fumea1529 passion1530 fustian fume1553 ruff1567 pelt1573 spleen1590 blaze1597 huff1599 blustera1616 dog-flawa1625 overboiling1767 explosion1769 squall1807 blowout1825 flare-up1837 fit1841 bust-up1842 wax1854 Scot1859 pelter1861 ructions1862 performance1864 outfling1865 rise1877 detonation1878 flare-out1879 bait1882 paddy1894 paddywhack1899 wingding1927 wing-dinger1933 eppie1987 1894 G. A. Henty Dorothy's Double I. 132 They goes out looking red in the face, and in a regular paddy. 1929 J. Owen Shepherd & Child i. 14 Tristina went—and that without pulling the door behind her ‘in a paddy’, as she would have done if the order had come from Miss Trellis. 1933 E. Partridge Words, Words, Words! i. 9 Both Irish and the colloquial Paddy are used for anger. 1959 ‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder v. 56 It was my awful temper. I used to get into the biggest paddies when I was a kiddie. 1975 J. Cowley Mandrake Root (1976) xvi. 280 You're a pigheaded Stilwell... Got a real paddy when you let go. 1991 A. Campbell Sidewinder v. 69 I could see that old Sidewinder was working himself into a paddy, so I decided it was healthier to back-pedal. 6. A type of drill with expanding cutters (see quot. 1895). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill > other drills jumper1769 screw drill1821 stop-drill1843 hand drill1845 Swiss drill1846 traverse-drill1853 crown borer1854 pin drill1858 foot drill1860 perforator1861 pin-bit1873 Archimedean drill1889 paddy1895 stope drill1908 stem1914 screw gun1945 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. 1262/3 Paddy, a well-boring drill having cutters that expand on pressure; paddy-drill. 1960 A. E. Long Gloss. Diamond-drilling Industry 66/2 Paddy, a borehole drill bit having cutters that expand on pressure. Also called Expansion bit, Paddy bit. 7. Railways slang. A train for conveying coal from a pithead. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > goods train > coal train coaler1898 paddy1927 paddy mail1945 1927 Dict. Occup. Terms (Ministry of Labour) §043 Paddy Train Conductor. 1965 H. Sheppard Dict. Railway Slang 8 Paddy, colliery train from mine to railhead. 1971 D. J. Smith Discovering Railwayana x. 58 Paddy, train conveying coal from the pithead to distant sidings. 1977 Guardian Weekly 4 Dec. 19/4 Once out of the cage, there was a quarter of a mile to walk over pit railway sleepers, dodging heavy equipment, to the ‘paddy’ whose proper name is ‘the endless rope haulage manrider’. 8. slang. Also Paddy. Originally and chiefly in African-American usage; also among Hispanic Americans: a white person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] white mana1398 Christian1622 European1666 white-face1684 long knife1784 buckra1794 sahib1796 white-skin1803 whitey1811 Pakeha1817 papalagi1817 paleface1823 whitefellow1826 Abelungu1836 haole1843 gringo1849 lightiea1855 umlungu1859 mzungu1860 heaven-burster1861 ladino1877 mooniasc1880 Conchy Joe1888 béké1889 ofay1899 ridge runner1904 Ngati Pakeha1905 kelch1912 pink1913 leucoderm1924 fay1927 Mr Charlie1928 pinkie1935 devil1938 wonk1938 oaf1941 grey1943 paddy1945 Caucasoid1956 Jumble1957 Caucasian1958 white boy1958 pinko-grey1964 honky1967 toubab1976 palagi1977 1945 C. B. Himes If he hollers let him Go 7 I'd have busted him wide open because he was a paddy and needed busting. 1962 H. Simmons Man walking on Eggshells ii. xxii. 162 A lot of paddy studs still didn't know that boots were human. 1972 J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) xiv. 241 Paddy hustling was always a Negro flimflam and that's where the name came from, but lately I've seen white hustlers using this scam on other paddies. 1980 J. L. Gwaltney Dryslongso (1981) 19 Paddies can't stand us and we don't think a hell of a lot of them. 1992 S. Straight Been in Sorrow's Kitchen 66 Why you want to sit with paddies anyway? Compounds C1. Compounds with Paddy. Paddy Doyle n. Services' slang (confinement in) a cell or detention barracks; esp. in to do Paddy Doyle. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] prisonOE wardc1290 prisoning1344 keepingc1384 imprisonment1389 prisonment1422 jail1447 fasteningc1460 warding1497 firmancea1522 incarcerationc1540 imprisoningc1542 limbo1590 limbus?a1600 endurance1610 jailing1622 restraint1829 carceration1870 holiday1901 Paddy Doyle1919 bird1924 1919 War Slang in Athenæum 8 Aug. 787/2 When doing C.B... he [sc. the soldier] was doing ‘jankers’ or ‘Paddy Doyle’. 1932 E. Weekley Words & Names xii. 174 Doing ‘Paddy Doyle’ as a euphemism for doing ‘time’ in the cells. 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 136 Paddy Doyle, a lower-deck term for ‘detention cell’—singular or collective. Paddyland n. slang (derogatory) Ireland. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Ireland > [noun] Western Isle1557 shamrockshire1689 Teagueland1689 Wolfland1692 Green Island1797 Green Isle1812 the (old) sod1812 Paddyland1828 (is)land of saints1888 1828 T. Moore Brunswick Echoes in Times 18 Oct. 2/6 In the bogs of old Paddy-land. 1952 P. Larkin Let. 18 July in Sel. Lett. (1992) 186 The next month will be very peaceful & quiet, I hope: except for expensive trips to Paddyland. 2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 30 June 13 His tour of the counties of Ireland, plods relentlessly on, the contours of Paddyland become ever more precise. Paddy lucerne n. [ < paddy n.² + lucerne n.²; for an alternative etymology deriving the first element from paddy n.¹ see quot. 1958] Australian = Paddy's lucerne n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1888 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 3 391 Sida rhombifolia..called ‘Paddy lucerne’ on the Richmond and Clarence Rivers, New South Wales, and ‘Lucerne’ in other parts of the colony (cows being very fond of it). 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Paddy lucern, a tropical malvaceous weed (sida rhombifolia) introduced into Australia, where it is a pest in some localities. It yields a coarse fiber. 1958 J. N. Whittet Weeds (1968) 319 In India, paddy lucerne was one of the so-called ‘hemps’ which were grown and sent to Europe... By reason of its invasion of paddy (rice) fields, the name paddy lucerne was applied to the weed. paddy mail n. Mining slang (now historical) = sense 7. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > goods train > coal train coaler1898 paddy1927 paddy mail1945 1945 Penguin New Writing 23 85 Colliers were drawn toward it from all the surrounding parts. His mate, Ron Loss, came in by the paddy-mail. 1995 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Sept. 6 A navvies' shanty town called Dawson City sprang up on the Bronte moors and the daily ‘Paddy Mail’ took workers up to the dams. paddy wagon n. slang (originally U.S.) a police van or car. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > van > police van pie wagon1904 paddy wagon1909 Black Maria1924 pickup van1941 meat wagon1949 squadrol1961 1909 Chicago Tribune 12 Sept. v. 3/1 Don't it make you think of the paddy wagon going down the street to pinch a gambling joint? 2005 H. G. Lefever Undaunted by Fight xi. 118 Just before the officer closed the paddy wagon door he filmed the six Riders seated inside. Paddywatch n. English regional (now rare) one of several 19th-cent. unlicensed almanacs (cf. sense 3, and paddywhack n. 1b). ΚΠ 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Paddywatch,..an almanac. Paddy Wester n. slang a bogus seaman, esp. one using a dead sailor's papers; an inefficient or inexperienced seaman. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > inefficient, lazy, or unseamanlike sailor lubber1579 guinea pig1748 marine1829 soldier1840 lubbard1867 Paddy Wester1892 ullage1901 oily wad1925 1892 Boy's Own Paper 28 May 549/1 At the last moment a number of ‘Paddy Westers’ had shipped as substitutes for men previously engaged under the superintendence of the chief mate. 1927 F. H. Shaw Knocking Around xiii. 125 He was not an actual Paddy-Wester, but he had sailed shipmates with many of them. 1938 W. E. Dexter Rope-yarns 125 They had a pack of fake seamen sailing on dead men's discharges—a crew of ‘Paddy Westers’. C2. Compounds with Paddy's. Paddy's Day n. St Patrick's Day (17 March). ΚΠ 1762 G. Stayley Life & Opinions Actor II. vi. 145 Benefits in Ireland, I think, generally commence about Paddy's Day; whether in Honour of the Saint or not, I cannot say. 1875 Georgia Tel. (Macon) 16 Feb. ‘In what year were you born?’ ‘In 1805—17th of March.’ ‘Paddy's day.’ 1943 J. Mitchell McSorley's 19 The Paddy's Day parade, two years ago. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Mar. b7 We used to have a big parade there every St. Paddy's Day. I don't know about here. It's okay though, the people are having fun. 1993 World & I Mar. 167/2 Northern Ireland lacks anything equivalent to a Paddy's Day shindig in Dublin or New York. Paddy's hurricane n. Nautical slang (now historical) a flat calm. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > complete absence of wind calmness1516 calm1517 malace1623 clock-calm1777 Irishman's hurricane1803 Paddy's hurricane1819 airlessness1831 Irish hurricanea1835 windlessness1916 1819 A. Welby Jrnl. 10 May in Visit to N. Amer. (1821) 6 We are now first experiencing a calm attended by a heavy swell of the sea:—the sailors call this ‘Paddy's Hurricane’. 1856 Ballou's Dollar Monthly Mag. Oct. 321 What little air there was stirring being like paddy's hurricane, right up and down. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 514 Paddy's hurricane, not wind enough to float the pennant. 1903 A. Sonnichsen Deep Sea Vagabonds vii. 114 The winds here never blew at all, or, after the manner of Paddy's hurricane, up and down. 1958 J. G. R. Bisset Sail Ho! v. 48 A dead calm was known as ‘Paddy's hurricane’. Paddy's lantern n. colloquial the moon. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [noun] moonOE Diana1398 Hecatec1420 lady of the night1480 luna?1499 Lucina?1504 Phoebe1600 queen of the night?1610 mother of months1613 noctiluca1623 Cynthia1645 Oliver?1747 star-queen1818 Paddy's lantern1834 parish lantern1847 night-sun1855 1834 Johnstone's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 484/1 The hollows seem as dark as night: Tho' Paddy's lantern has been lit. 1933 P. A. Eaddy Hull Down v. 104 Work round the deck and up aloft is a hundred times easier when ‘Paddy's Lantern’ is hung out. 1969 L. Murray Coll. Poems (1991) 22 Long before dawn, I rose by Paddy's Lantern, lit up my own and walked through miles of dew with my striding shadow. Paddy's lucerne n. Australian a tropical evergreen shrub, Sida rhombifolia, of the mallow family, originally introduced into Australia as a fodder crop and fibre plant, now a serious weed (also called Queensland hemp). ΚΠ 1896 A. Mackay Austral. Agriculturist (rev. ed.) 120 The ‘paddy's lucerne’ of colonial farming populations, is one of the best known fibre-yielders. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VIII. 127/2 Paddy's lucerne is so tough and difficult to eradicate that it is reckoned one of the most formidable weed-pests in warmer parts of the Commonwealth. 2002 Illawarra Mercury (Austral.) (Nexis) 14 Dec. 25 Weeds, mainly Paddy's lucerne also proved a nuisance. Paddy's pig n. freq. derogatory (originally and chiefly U.S.) the epitome of Irishness; esp. in as Irish as Paddy's pig. ΚΠ 1916 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 23 Feb. ‘You sound Hibernian.’ ‘I am as Irish as Paddy's pig, and proud of it.’ 1974 I. Agnew Loner 185 There's one who reminds me of Crawford from the Dunedin gaol—as ignorant as Paddy's pig. 1998 Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald (Nexis) 1 Nov. 4 b I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig with Irish immigrant roots deep in Holt County. † Paddy's watch n. Obsolete = Paddywatch n. at Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1886 Notes & Queries 12 June 478/1 There was a heavy stamp duty on almanacs, and the law was evaded by the surreptitious sale of a shabbily printed sheet called popularly a ‘Paddy's Watch’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). paddyadj.¹ A misreading by J. L. Motley of baddy in a 16th-cent. letter by T. Digges (see quot. 1586 at baddy adj.), followed by Webster (1864) and some later dictionaries. ΚΠ 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands I. vii. 393 The condition of the paddy persons continued most destitute. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2020). paddyadj.² Brit. /ˈpadi/, U.S. /ˈpædi/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pad n.², -y suffix¹. Etymology: < pad n.² + -y suffix¹. Resembling a pad; soft, plump, cushiony. Also in extended use: mild, gentle, good-natured. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > self-satisfaction > [adjective] smug1551 fat1598 self-contented1631 self-pleased1633 self-satisfied1653 self-contenta1656 self-complacent1736 self-gratulating1755 complacent1767 well1773 self-congratulatory1798 comfortable1856 paddy1865 Podsnappian1866 cosy1927 the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > complacency > [adjective] fat1598 self-contented1631 self-pleased1633 self-satisfied1653 self-contenta1656 complacing1669 self-complacentiala1711 self-complacinga1711 self-complacent1736 complacent1767 pinguid1768 unctuous1822 paddy1865 the world > animals > mammals > [adjective] > of parts of > having pads (of feet) paddy1958 the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > not harsh or gentle meekc1230 nesha1250 tender1340 softa1398 sober1455 gentle1508 silken1601 milken1648 rose water1837 paddy1962 1865 C. M. Yonge Clever Woman II. iii. 38 A pair of plump, paddy-looking old friends. 1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House II. xix. 156 The paddy good-natured face in bed. 1958 L. M. Boston Chimneys of Green Knowe 132 He was woken by Orlando's whiskery face poking him in the ear, and a paddy foot on his eyelid. 1962 N. Marsh Hand in Glove ii. 53 The impressive things about Sergeant Raikes were his size and his mildness... He said: ‘Good afternoon, miss,’ in a loud but paddy voice. 2002 Australian (Nexis) 29 Apr. 4 The soft paddy land of the field absorbs bombs very nicely. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1623n.²1714adj.¹1860adj.²1865
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