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pad⋅dy

  [pad-ee]
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–noun, plural -dies.
1. a rice field.
2. rice, esp. in the husk, either uncut or gathered.
Origin:
1590–1600; < Malay padi unhusked rice; currency of this word in E of India perh. due to early assoc. with Kannada batta, bhatta unhusked rice (< Indo-Aryan; cf. Hindi, Marathi bhāt cooked rice, Skt bhakhta food, meal)
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Pad⋅dy

  [pad-ee]
–noun, plural -dies.
1. Slang: Often Disparaging. an Irishman or a person of Irish descent.
2. a male given name.
Origin:
familiar var. of Ir Padraig Patrick; see -y 2
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pad·dy   (pād'ē)   
n.   pl. pad·dies

  1. Rice, especially in the husk, whether gathered or still in the field.

  2. A specially irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.


[Malay padi.]
Pad·dy   (pād'ē)   
n.   Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a person, especially a man, of Irish birth or descent.

[Nickname for Irish Gaelic Pádraig, Patrick.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
paddy

  1. n.
    a police officer, especially an Irish police officer. (Usually derogatory. Also an ill-advised term of address.) : Tell that paddy to go catch a crook or something.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

paddy  (1)
"rice field," 1623, "rice plant," from Malay padi "rice in the straw;" meaning "ground where rice is growing" (1948) is a shortening of paddy field.

Paddy  (2)
"Irishman," 1780, slang, from the pet form of the common Irish proper name Patrick (Ir. Padraig). It was in use in black slang by 1946 for any "white person." Paddy wagon is 1930, perhaps so called because many police officers were Irish. Paddywhack (1881) originally meant "an Irishman."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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paddy

small, level, flooded field used to cultivate rice in southern and eastern Asia. Wet-rice cultivation is the most prevalent method of farming in the Far East, where it utilizes a small fraction of the total land yet feeds the majority of the rural population. Rice was domesticated as early as 3500 BC, and by about 2,000 years ago it was grown in almost all of the present-day cultivation areas, predominantly deltas, floodplains and coastal plains, and some terraced valley slopes.

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