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paddy

SubstantivAdjektivSubstantivSubstantivhäufig in Dialogen

  • //ˈpædi//

Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.

    Taking out a handful of paddy the old woman exclaimed, “Look how good this paddy is! It is called Malbhog – it makes excellent puffed rice.”

  2. 2

    A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.

Herkunft

Borrowed from Malay padi (“paddy plant”). Doublet of palay.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    veraltetLow; mean; boorish; vagabond.

    Even after the expiration of four months the condition of the paddy persons continued most destitute. The English soldiers became mere barefoot starving beggars in the streets[…]

    Becca wrote to Lizzie of her brother's incessant demands: Suthie came to me in a very paddy state and said 'Now ... you must bind a book for me.'

    Now, now, we are getting very paddy today, aren't we John?

Herkunft

English dialect paddy (“worm-eaten”).

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A fit of temper; a tantrum.

    throw a paddy etc.

    I like the story of the Emperor Frederick who got into a paddy with his cook, and shouted: 'I am the Emperor, and I want dumplings.'

  2. 2

    SlangA white person.

    You know what I like best about paddy chicks? They give good head. Black broads don’t know nothing about giving head. I don’t know why. Might be it has something to do with some ancient tribal custom.

  3. 3

    A labourer's assistant or workmate.

  4. 4

    A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.

Herkunft

Possibly from Paddy (“Irishman”).

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A snowy sheathbill.

Herkunft

Perhaps after the paddy bird, or egret.

Formen

Plural
paddies
Komparativ
more paddy
Superlativ
most paddy
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