Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. "Such pady persons." Digges (1585). "The paddy persons." Motley.
A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.
Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies. Paddy bird. (Zoöl.) See Java sparrow, under Java.
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