Usually means: Cultivated field for growing rice.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paddy, paddy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Paddy, Paddy, paddy, paddy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Paddy, paddy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paddy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Paddy, paddy: Vocabulary.com
  6. paddy: Wordnik
  7. Paddy, paddy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Paddy, paddy: Wiktionary
  9. paddy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Paddy, paddy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. paddy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Paddy, paddy: Dictionary.com
  13. Paddy (2), paddy (1): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. paddy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Paddy (film), Paddy (given name), Paddy (pigeon), Paddy (unmilled rice), Paddy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Paddy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. paddy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. paddy: Rhymezone
  19. Paddy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Paddy: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Paddy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. paddy: Free Dictionary
  23. paddy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Paddy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. paddy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paddy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paddy (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. paddy, paddy, paddy, paddy, paddy, Paddy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Paddy, paddy: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. paddy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See paddies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
noun:  (countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.
adjective:  (obsolete) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
noun:  A fit of temper; a tantrum.
noun:  (African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
noun:  (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
noun:  A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.
noun:  A snowy sheathbill.
noun:  An Irish nickname for Patrick.
noun:  (slang, sometimes offensive) An Irish person.

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