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PaddyEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Etymology tree Irish Pád(raig) Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English Paddy From Irish Pád(raig) (“Patrick”) + English -y.
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Borrowed from Malay padi (“paddy plant”). Doublet of palay.
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English dialect paddy (“worm-eaten”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗paddyEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Possibly from Paddy (“Irishman”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗paddyEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
Perhaps after the paddy bird, or egret.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- PaddyEnglish · e-38699-1697
Paddy, pad′i, n. rice in the husk.—ns. Padd′y-bird, the Java sparrow or rice-bird; Padd′y-field, a field where rice is grown. [East Ind.]
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Paddy, pad′i, n. a familiar name for an Irishman, from St Patrick: a drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.—n. Padd′y-whack, a nurse's word for a slap.
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