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Paddy (iou)



Paddy noun2. ['padi] Also paddy. L18.
[Pet-form of Irish male forename Padraig Patrick: see -Y6. Cf. PAT noun2.]
(A nickname for) an Irishman. slang. derog. L18.
A bricklayer's or builder's labourer. Now dial. M19.
A fit of temper, a rage. colloq. L19.
A white person. Black slang. M20.
A train for conveying coal from a pit-head. slang. M20.
Comb.: Paddy Doyle Military slang confinement in the cells; Paddyland derog. Ireland; Paddy's hurricane Nautical slang a flat calm; Paddy's lantern Nautical slang the moon; Paddy's lucerne Austral. a tropical evergreen shrub of the mallow family, Sida rhombifolia, formerly grown for the fibre of its stem and now a serious weed; also called Queensland hemp; Paddy mail = sense 5 above; Paddy wagon (chiefly N. Amer.) a van for conveying prisoners; occas., a police car; Paddy Wester Nautical slang an inefficient or inexperienced seaman; paddywhack (a) = sense 1 above; (b) = sense 3 above; (c) dial. a severe beating, a thrashing.
Paddyism noun (slang, derog.) (a) Irish quality or character; (b) an Irishism: E19.