Paddy

Definition: Paddy

Paddy

Noun

1. Ethnic slur; a person of Irish descent.

2. An irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Paddy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a nobleman".

Date "Paddy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)

Literature

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Paddy

Pulverulence

Powder, dust, sand, shingle; sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule; crumb, seed, grain; particle. (smallness); limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder; flocculi.

Crosswords: Paddy

German (Paddy).

We already took some of your friends downtown in a paddy wagon (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

She's too young for you Paddy lad. (Phoenix Nights; writing credit: Neil Fitzmaurice; Peter Kay)

That Paddy, is a German Broomhandled Mowser (Phoenix Nights; writing credit: Neil Fitzmaurice; Peter Kay)

Paddy (1970)

L' Héroïsme de Paddy (1915)

Paddy (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Adventures of Paddy Pork (reference)

• Paddy (reference)

• Paddy Bogside (reference)

• Rice Paddy Grunt: Unfading Memories of the Vietnam Generation (reference)

• The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Corrie Folk Trio & Paddy Bell (reference)

• Rakish Paddy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Paddy Livingston. Credit: Library of Congress.

Peggy is earning what Paddy is burning--a typical Irish home. Credit: Library of Congress.

Machine gun pumps a period into career of Paddy Murray, gang leader ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Woman laughs as she's carried to paddy wagon by two trusties in Jackson, Miss. Credit: Library of Congress.

Atlanta policeman drags African American high school student Taylor Washington to paddy wagon during demonstration against restaurant segregation, Atlanta, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

Japanese and Korean companies currently dominated the import market for paddy rice harvesters and processing equipment. (references)

Current demand for paddy rice harvesters exceeds the supply and crawler type head-feed rice harvester is a best selling product. (references)

Economic History

Mali

About one-third of Mali's paddy rice is produced at the Office du Niger. (references)

Zambia

Zambia's major agricultural products include maize, wheat, millet, cotton, tobacco, coffee, soybeans, groundnuts, sugar cane, sunflower, paddy rice, flowers and horticultural products, sorghum, cassava and paprika. (references)

Turkey

Recently, quantitative restrictions in Ministry of Agriculture import permits constrained paddy imports and the milled rice share of the market appears to have grown. (references)

Political Economy

EL SALVADOR

Under this new scheme, white and yellow corn are charged 20 percent ad valorem duties; paddy and milled rice, 40 percent; fluid milk and dairy products, 40 percent; sorghum, 40 percent; and pork, 40 percent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "Paddy": be in a paddy ♦ get in a paddy ♦ get into a paddy ♦ Paddy bird ♦ paddy field ♦ paddy foot ♦ paddy rice ♦ paddy wagon ♦ rice paddy. Additional references.

Beginning with "Paddy": paddy-field, paddy-fields, Paddy-the-lover, Paddy-the-spy, Paddy-the-warrior, paddy-wagons.

Ending with "Paddy": rice-paddy.

Albanian

Zemërim (anger, bitterness, chafe, conniption, Dander, dudgeon, effervescence, effervescency, exasperation, excitement, huff, impatience, indignation, ire, paddywhack, passion, petulance, rage, rasp, spite, wax, wrath), Orizore (rice field, rice paper), Oriz I Pazhveshur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حقل الأرز (paddy field, rice paddy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Оризище, Пристъп На ярост, Арпа, Необран Ориз, Ирландец (Pat). (various references)

Chinese 

稻 (rice). (various references)

Czech

Patrik (Patrick). (various references)

Danish

pes fossarum (immersion foot, immersion foot White, paddy foot, trench foot, trenchfoot), paddy ris (paddy rice, rice in the husk, rough rice), uafskallet ris (paddy rice, rice in the husk, rough rice), uafskallede runde ris (round paddy rice), uafskallede medium ris (medium paddy rice), uafskallede lange ris (long paddy rice), trench foot (immersion foot, immersion foot White, paddy foot, trench foot, trenchfoot), raa ris (paddy rice, rice in the husk, rough rice), immersion foot (immersion foot, immersion foot White, paddy foot, trench foot, trenchfoot). (various references)

Dutch

padie (paddy rice, rice in the husk, rough rice), gewone rijstbibit-uil (lawn armyworm, nutgrass armyworm, paddy cutworm), gewone rijstwants (paddy bug, rice bug, rice sapper), immersion foot (immersion foot, immersion foot White, paddy foot, trench foot, trenchfoot), langkorrelige padie (long paddy rice), loopgravenvoet (immersion foot, immersion foot White, paddy foot, trench foot, trenchfoot), geel rijstmotje (grass leaf roller, leaffolder, paddy leaf roller, rice leafroller), ongedopte rijst (paddy rice, rice in the husk, rough rice), walang sangit (paddy bug, rice bug, rice sapper), rýstveld (paddy-field, rice-field), rijstbibit-blaaspoot (paddy thrips, rice thrips), rijstveld (paddy-field, ricefield, rice-field), rondkorrelige padie (round paddy rice), syndroom van White (immersion foot, immersion foot White, paddy foot, trench foot, trenchfoot), trench foot (immersion foot, immersion foot White, paddy foot, trench foot, trenchfoot), middenkorrelige padie (medium paddy rice). (various references)

Esperanto

rizkampulo (paddy-field, rice-field), rizkampo (paddy field, ricefield). (various references)

Farsi 

مزرعه شالیکاری , ایرلندی (Irish, Irishman), برنج اسیاب نکرده . (various references)

Finnish

pitkäjyväinen kuorimaton riisi (long paddy rice), lyhytjyväinen kuorimaton riisi (round paddy rice), kuorimaton riisi (paddy rice, rice in the husk, rough rice), kuorellinen riisi (brown rice, paddy rice, unhulled rice), keskipitkäjyväinen kuorimaton riisi (medium paddy rice). (various references)

French

panier à salade (paddy wagon), pied de tranchées (paddy foot), pied d'immersion (paddy foot), pyrale des herbes (paddy leaf roller), riz paddy moyen (medium paddy rice), hespérie du riz (paddy skipper), riz cargo (paddy rice), riz en paille (paddy rice), riz non décortiqué (paddy rice), calibrage du paddy (paddy grading), riz paddy long (long paddy rice), thrips du riz (paddy thrips), riz paddy rond (round paddy rice), riz vêtu (paddy rice), rizière (paddy field), rizon (paddy rice), séparateur de paddy (paddy separator), séparateur statique de paddy (static screen paddy separator), syndrome de White (paddy foot), table densimétrique (specific gravity paddy separator), tarare de paddy (paddy cleaner), riz paddy (paddy rice). (various references)

German

Wutanfall (fit of rage, fit of range, franticness, tantrum). (various references)

Greek 

όρυζα (rice), Αναποφλοίωτο Ρύζι, Ρύζι. (various references)

Hebrew 

שדה אורז (paddy field, rice paddy). (various references)

Hungarian

Hántolatlan Rizs (rice in the husk, rice paddy). (various references)

Indonesian

padi (rice). (various references)

Italian

Uomo Irlandese. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

良田 (fertile rice paddy), 護送車 (paddy wagon), 青田 (green paddy), 田畝 (farm, paddy field), 田圃 (farm, paddy field), 田地 (farmland, rice field or paddy), 田ぼ (farm, paddy field), 田を打つ (to tilla rice paddy), 稲田 (paddy field, rice field), 沼田 (marshy rice field or paddy), 湿田 (a paddy moist all year due to improper irrigation), 水田 (paddy field), 乾田 (dry paddy field), 公田 (paddy administered directly by a ruler). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

でんぽ (farm, paddy field), りょうでん (fertile rice paddy), こうでん (condolence gift, gift brought to a funeral, incense money, official telegram, oral instruction, oral tradition, paddy administered directly by a ruler, photoelectric, tradition), ごそうしゃ (paddy wagon), いなだ (bullhead, paddy field, rice field, young yellowtail tuna), かんでん (dry paddy field, receive an electric shock), あおた (green paddy), でんじ (electromagnetic, farmland, rice field or paddy), たんぼ (dawn and dusk, farm, morn and eve, paddy field), ぬまだ (marshy rice field or paddy), ぬまた (marshy rice field or paddy), しつでん (a paddy moist all year due to improper irrigation), くでん (oral instruction, oral tradition, paddy administered directly by a ruler, tradition), すいでん (paddy field), たをうつ (to tilla rice paddy), でんち (battery, farmland, rice field or paddy). (various references)

Korean 

벼 (Paddies). (various references)

Manx

Perick (Patrick). (various references)

Pig Latin

addypay.(various references)

Portuguese

raiva (anger, dander, fury, ire, madness, odium, paddywhack, rabidity, rage), cólera (anger, bate, bile, choler, cholera, dander, displeasure, fury, passion, pip, spunk, state, wrath), arroz com casca (paddy rice, rice in the husk, rough rice). (various references)

Romanian

Orez Nedecorticat, Orez (rice), Nervi (nerves, the needle), Câmp De Orez. (various references)

Russian 

рисовое поле (paddy field), Приступ Гнева, Рис-падди. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pirinčano polje (paddy field, rice paddy), pirinač (rice). (various references)

Spanish

Rabieta (franticness, huff), Arrozal (paddy field, rice paddy, ricefield), Arroz Con Cáscara (paddy rice, rice in the husk, rough rice). (various references)

Swedish

Snut (bogey, cop, flatfoot, fuzz, gendarme, gumshoe, pig, shamus), Raseri (Bate, frenzy, fume, furiosity, furry, fury, ire, madness, rage), Irländare (Irishman, milesian). (various references)

Turkish

Hiddet (anger, Bate, dudgeon, exasperation, flame, flare up, furor, furore, fury, rage, sound and fury, spunk, steam, wrath), Ýrlandalı (Gael, Mick, Pat), Öfke (Bate), Çeltik. (various references)

Ukrainian

Пружний, Паровий Екскаватор, Муляр (Waller), Необшугований Рис, Еластичний, Лють (Bate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ruộng lúa dụng cụ để khoan (paddywhack), lúa (paddywhack, rice). (various references)

Bagnallia oryzae, Cnaphalocerus medinalis, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, Laphygma mauritia, Laphygma mauritia acronyctoides, Leptocorisa acuta, Parnara guttatus, Spodoptera mauritia, Thrips oryzae. (various references)

Misspellings

"Paddy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haddy, padc, paddie, padi, padly, pado, padry, padu, pady, pandy, pardi, pardy, Paudi, paxd, Pcdi, pdd, Peddie, Pedi, pedy, peedy, phdd, Pidd, piddly, piddy, pidy, Pladda, poddy, prady, pudd, puddy, pudy, Upadhya. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dyad.

-2 letters: add, dad, dap, day, pad, pay, pya, yap.

-3 letters: ad, ay, pa, ya.

+2 letters: giddyap.

+3 letters: pandowdy.

+4 letters: displayed, pyramided.

+5 letters: dependably, depravedly, downplayed, epididymal.