PADDY

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. "Such pady persons." Digges (1585). "The paddy persons." Motley.

2.
n.

A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.

3.
n.

Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies. Paddy bird. (Zoöl.) See Java sparrow, under Java.


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