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▪ I. paddy, n.1|ˈpædɪ|
Forms: (α. 6 batte, 7 batty.) β. 7 paddie, 8–9 paddi, 8 pady, (patty), 9 paddee, 9– padi, 7– paddy.
[a. Malay pādī rice in the straw, in Javanese and other Malay langs. pārī. The identity of this with Canarese batta, bhatta rice in the husk, whence the batte, batty of early authors, is uncertain.]
1. a. Rice in the straw, or (in commerce) in the husk. Also, the rice plant. Now freq. written padi.
[1598W. Phillips Linschoten 70 Rice, of a lesse price and slighter then the other Ryce, and is called Batte.] 1623St. Papers, Col. 146 The people addict themselves wholly to the planting of paddie for their maintenance. [1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 67 The Ground between this and the great Breach..bears good Batty. ] Ibid. 244 Furlongs loaded with Rice or Paddy, being courser than the Indian.1782Ann. Reg. 65 Collecting paddy and beating the rice from the straw. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. v. 490 His only remaining resource was in the paddy in the fields. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. i. 18/2 Rice which comes to us in the husk is called by its Indian name ‘paddy’. 1893F. A. Swettenham About Perak 41 The country for miles round Parit Buntar has been converted from jungle into fields of sugarcane and padi. 1894[see nasi]. 1900C. O. Blagden in W. W. Skeat Malay Magic iii. 58 In the inland villages it is regarded as a great crime to use the sickle (sabit) for cutting the padi. 1931Economist 19 Dec. 1168/2 Thousands of acres of paddy are being planted in isolated plots that were merely abandoned swamps. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 10 June 12/2 Unmilled or rough rice, growing or cut, is known as ‘paddy’. 1966S. M. Sadeek Windswept & Other Stories (1969) 2 The strong winds whistled their..tunes.. through the whispering sugarcanes and the sheets and sheets of shimmering padi—green, or golden—under the tropic sun. 1969J. M. Gullick Malaysia ii. 47 ‘Padi’ is the term for unhusked rice and is used to denote the rice plant. 1971R. Russell tr. Ahmad's Shore & Wave i. 9 All around is flat country..and dotted about the plains are muddy bluish pools which from the air look like big pieces of blue glass set in the fields of green waving paddy. 1972M. Sheppard Taman Indera 163 The grey water bottles are left to dry for two or three days and are then fired in a shallow trench, using coconut fibre, coconut shells and padi husks.
b. = paddy-field.
1948Amer. Speech XXIII. 229/2 Paddy, a rice field. 1972Sci. Amer. May 23/1 The entire immediate area had been a rice paddy, but during the years when no cultivation had occurred, the rice had been replaced by a very tall reed. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 668/3 Paddy, a wet field used for growing rice. 1974Indonesian Observer 26 July 1/3 The President was informed that the irrigation project whose construction work was begun 1936 but stopped until 1971 will be capable of irrigating 50,330 hectares of paddies. 1974Nat. Geographic Aug. 252 A tree-lined road cut through harvested grainfields and paddies resting under a crystal-blue sky.
2. Short for paddy-bird; ellipt. its feathers.
1777G. Forster Voy. round World II. 568 Rice-birds, commonly called paddies. 1891Times 24 Oct. 13/2 Feathers... Short selected are dearer, white and gray paddy firm.
3. attrib. and Comb., as paddy-boat, paddy clearing, paddy-crop, paddy-field, paddy flat, paddy-grinding, paddy-ground, paddy-pounder, paddy tax, etc.; paddy-insect, a Chinese species of silkworm from Hainan.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 162 Two hundred Paddy-Boats with their Convoys. 1762Wood in Phil. Trans. LII. 417 You descend into the paddy, or rice fields. 1871Athenæum 27 May 650 Mr. Cooper..was upset into a newly-flooded paddy-field by the great man's outriders. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark vi. 354 They call these low swampy valleys on each side of a stream paddy flats, whether they are actually cultivated or not. 1892Daily News 15 Mar. 3/1 The Secretary of State has informed the Governor of Ceylon that..the time has arrived for abolishing the paddy tax. 1937Discovery Jan. 7/2 Spacious padi fields. 1971Illustr. Weekly India 25 Apr. 42/1 The large tracts of golden paddy fields blended with the molten gold of Niger flowers. 1977Borneo Bull. 7 May 1/5 Four people..were electrocuted in a padi field at Kampong Keriam, near Tutong, last month when an overhead power cable collapsed on to the field.
▪ II. paddy, n.2|ˈpædɪ|
[Irish pet-form of Padraig or Patrick.]
1. (With capital initial.) Nickname for an Irishman; also used as a form of address, often felt to be derog.
1780A. Young Tour Irel. I. 116 Paddies were swimming their horses in the sea to cure the mange. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iv. iv, Paddy was tripped up. 1899Westm. Gaz. 18 Mar. 8/1 We were surprised to see that our entire staff of office-boys had suddenly turned Paddies, wearing the green with a most becoming bonhomie. 1907G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island iii. 75 Hodson... Dont you be taken in by my ole man, Paddy. Matthew... Paddy yourself! How dar you call me Paddy? 1916‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ii. 29 ‘Stop yer bloomin' noise, Paddy!’.. And Pincher suffered no further inconvenience at the hands of Peter Flannagan.
b. Phr. to come the paddy over, to bamboozle, humbug. slang.
1821Blackw. Mag. 608 Fairly came the paddy over him.
c. (With capital initial.) The proprietary name of an Irish whiskey; a drink of this. Also (sometimes with lower-case initial) Irish whiskey generally.
1925Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 Dec. 2827 Paddy... Whisky. Cork Distilleries Company, Limited,..Cork, Ireland; distillers. 1971J. Aiken Nightly Deadshade vii. 77 Milly is drinking port..and O'Grady, double Paddys. 1974D. Seaman Bomb that could Lip-Read vii. 51 Will you gentlemen join me in a drink now?.. Three Paddies, then, is it? 1975New Yorker 25 Aug. 40/3 Did she put Irish whiskey in your glass, that Paddy junk? We asked for Scotch. 1976N. Freeling Lake Isle xx. 140 The drop of paddy's fearfully dear here. I've no opinion of the stuff the supermarket calls Scotch.
2. A bricklayer's or builder's labourer.
1856Emerson Eng. Traits (1902) 165 The men were common masons, with paddies to help. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., A bricklayer's paddy..brings him bricks and mortar.
3. An unlicensed almanac, called more fully Paddy's Watch and paddywhack almanac (see paddywhack 1 b).
1876Mid-Yorks. Gloss., Paddywatch,..or Paddy,..an almanac. 1886N. & Q. 7th Ser. I. 478/1, I have often heard [a 1834]..‘Have you an almanac?’ and the answer has been, ‘We have a Paddy’.
4. A passion, a temper; = paddywack 2. colloq.
1894Henty Dorothy's Double I. 132 They goes out looking red in the face, and in a regular paddy. 1929J. Owen Shepherd & Child i. 14 Tristina went—and that without pulling the door behind her ‘in a paddy’, as she would have done if the order had come from Miss Trellis. 1933[see Irish n. 5]. 1959‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder v. 56 It was my awful temper. I used to get into the biggest paddies when I was a kiddie. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. x. 178 They taunt the person:..‘Don't get in a paddy.’ 1975J. Cowley Mandrake Root (1976) xvi. 280 You're a pigheaded Stilwell... Got a real paddy when you let go.
5. ‘A well-boring drill having cutters that expand on pressure; paddy-drill’ (Funk).
6. A name in North Carolina of the ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida; = paddywack 4. Also paddywhack.
7. In Black English, a white person; also attrib. or as adj.
1946C. Himes Black on Black (1973) 256 ‘Hey, don't spit in the sink where you wash the glasses,’ some paddy down the bar said. 1962[see boot n.3 1 e]. 1966Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 15 Oct. 74/2 Man, how I hate Paddies (white people)! 1967Trans-Action Apr. 6/1 This field worker..had run with ‘Paddy’ (white), ‘Chicano’ (Mexican), and ‘Blood’ (Negro) sets since the age of twelve. 1970R. D. Abrahams Positively Black i. 8 The black became beautiful and the white became nothing but a honky and a paddy. 1972J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) xiv. 240, I spotted a paddy hustler taking a guy up the back stairs. Ibid. 241 Paddy hustling was always a Negro flimflam and that's where the name came from, but lately I've seen white hustlers using this scam on other paddies. 1973D. Barnes See the Woman (1974) 68 ‘What are you?’ Grear said to West. ‘This paddy's interpreter?’ Ibid. 70 Biggest paddy whore in Normandie Avenue. 1976― Yesterday is Dead (1977) ii. 199 Hollister..found he was the only white face in the place... ‘You know..I'm the only paddy in here.’
8. Railway and Colliery slang. (See quots.)
1965H. Sheppard Dict. Railway Slang 8 Paddy, colliery train from mine to railhead. 1971D. J. Smith Discovering Railwayana x. 58 Paddy, train conveying coal from the pithead to distant sidings. 1977Guardian Weekly 4 Dec. 19/4 Once out of the cage, there was a quarter of a mile to walk over pit railway sleepers, dodging heavy equipment, to the ‘paddy’ whose proper name is ‘the endless rope haulage manrider’.
9. In Combs. of Paddy or Paddy's: Paddy Doyle Services' slang, confinement in the cells, esp. in phr. to do Paddy Doyle, or doing Paddy Doyle, Paddy Doyle; Paddy's hurricane Naval slang, a flat calm; Paddy's lantern colloq., the moon; Paddy('s) lucerne Austral., a local name for the tropical evergreen shrub, Sida rhombifolia, of the family Malvaceæ, a pest in parts of Australia, although cultivated elsewhere for the fibre it yields; paddy mail = sense 8 above; paddy wagon slang (orig. U.S.), a police van; occas., a police car; Paddy Wester slang, an inefficient or inexperienced seaman; (see also quots.).
1919Paddy Doyle [see C.B. s.v. C III. 3]. 1932E. Weekley Words & Names xii. 174 Doing ‘Paddy Doyle’ as a euphemism for doing ‘time’ in the cells. 1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 136 Paddy Doyle, a lower-deck term for ‘detention cell’—singular or collective.
a1865Smyth Sailor's Work-bk. (1867) 514 Paddy's hurricane, not wind enough to float the pennant. 1891H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Dict. 132 Paddy's hurricane, when there is little or no wind, so that the pennant hangs down alongside the mast. 1897‘F. B. Williams’ On Many Seas 43 We came on deck to find a ‘Paddy's Hurricane’—a calm. 1903A. Sonnichsen Deep Sea Vagabonds vii. 114 The winds here never blew at all, or, after the manner of Paddy's hurricane, up and down. 1958J. G. R. Bisset Sail Ho! v. 48 A dead calm was known as ‘Paddy's hurricane’.
1933P. A. Eaddy Hull Down v. 104 Work round the deck and up aloft is a hundred times easier when ‘Paddy's Lantern’ is hung out. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 600/2 Paddy's lantern, the moon: nautical... Prob. after parish-lantern.
1898Morris Austral Eng. 195/2 Hemp, Queensland,..name given to the common tropical weed Sida rhombifolia... Called also Paddy Lucerne. 1926‘J. Doone’ Timely Tips for New Australians (Gloss.), Paddy's lucerne.—A prevalent type of weed. 1965Austral. Encycl. VIII. 127/2 Paddy's lucerne is so tough and difficult to eradicate that it is reckoned one of the most formidable weed-pests in warmer parts of the Commonwealth.
1945Penguin New Writing XXIII. 85 Colliers were drawn toward it from all the surrounding parts. His mate, Ron Loss, came in by the paddy-mail. 1976Star (Sheffield) 29 Nov. 1/2 A man died today when ten miners were thrown from a paddy mail which crashed at a pit on the outskirts of Barnsley... The paddy mail—a train for carrying miners underground—struck a wooden roof support which had become dislodged, and was derailed.
1930Chicago Tribune 26 Mar. 3/6 He was informed by the pink faced lockup keeper that all Chicago's ‘paddy waggons’ are motor driven. 1932J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan vi. 259 First thing you know they'll have you in a jam, and you'll be riding in the paddy wagon. 1946C. Himes Black on Black (1973) 260 The police..held all four of us there waiting for the ambulance and the paddy wagon. 1964M. Banton Policeman in Community iii. 51, 2 Patrolmen in a wagon (‘Paddy-wagon’ or ‘Black Maria’). 1967N.Z. Listener 20 Jan. 3/4 A policeman is my guide, and a paddy-wagon my carriage, for a late evening trip around the town's night-spots. 1972H. C. Rae Shooting Gallery iv. 258 The Paddy-wagon, customarily on duty at the cul-de-sac beyond the junction. 1973Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 18 Mar. 25/6 A Police paddy wagon..cruised by. 1974Times 21 Sept. 14/2 Police, dogs, ambulances..a gigantic paddy-wagon.
1927F. H. Shaw Knocking Around xiii. 125 He was not an actual Paddy-Wester, but he had sailed shipmates with many of them. 1929F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 100 Paddy Wester, a fake seaman with a dead man's discharge, after a notorious boarding-house keeper in Liverpool who shipped thousands of green men as A.B.'s for a consideration. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 600/1 Paddy Wester; occ. paddywester. A bogus seaman carrying a dead man's discharge-papers; a very incompetent or dissolute seaman. 1938W. E. Dexter Rope-Yarns 125 They had a pack of fake seamen sailing on dead men's discharges—a crew of ‘Paddy Westers’.
Hence ˈPaddyism, an Irish peculiarity, Irishism.
1801Southey Lett. (1856) I. 167, I have discovered two tricks of pure Paddyism. 1890Clark Russell Ocean Trag. I. iv. 87, I could see, by hearing her (to use a Paddyism), the pout of her lip.
▪ III. paddy, a.|ˈpædɪ|
[f. pad n.3 + -y1.]
Having pads; cushion-like; soft, mild; also, ‘comfortable’, placidly self-satisfied.
Not in common use. The contextual sense is not entirely clear in some of the examples.
1865C. M. Yonge Clever Woman II. iii. 38 A pair of plump, paddy-looking old friends. 1873― Pillars of House II. xix. 156 The paddy good-natured face in bed. 1958L. M. Boston Chimneys of Green Knowe 132 He was woken by Orlando's whiskery face poking him in the ear, and a paddy foot on his eyelid. 1962N. Marsh Hand in Glove ii. 53 The impressive things about Sergeant Raikes were his size and his mildness... He said: ‘Good afternoon, miss,’ in a loud but paddy voice.
▪ IV. [paddy, a.2
an error for baddy in Motley, followed by recent dicts. Explained as: Low in character or manners; mean; contemptible; poor.
[1585–6T. Digges Let. to Walsingham 2/12 Jan. (P.R.O.) Such baddy persons as commonly, in voluntary procurements, men are glad to accept.] Quoted in1864Motley Netherl. I. vii. 393 as ‘paddy’. Hence in 1864Webster, and some later Dicts.] |