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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Paddy

Pad′dy (păd′dy̆), a. [Prov. E. paddy worm-eaten.] Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. "Such pady persons." Digges. "The paddy persons." Motley.

Pad′dy, n.; pl. Paddies (#). [Corrupted fr. St. Patrick, the tutelar saint of Ireland.] A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.

Pad′dy, n. [Either fr. Canarese bhatta or Malay pādī.] (Bot.) Unhusked rice; — commonly so called in the East Indies.

Paddy bird. (Zoöl.) See Java sparrow, under Java.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.