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paddy

paddy is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. "Such pady persons." Digges (1585). "The paddy persons." Motley.
  2. 2.A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.
  3. 3.Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies. Paddy bird. (Zoöl.) See Java sparrow, under Java.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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