Definitions for Paddy

Paddy pad·dy

Spelling: [pad-ee]
IPA: /ˈpæd i/

Paddy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in Paddy (addpy).

Definitions for Paddy

noun

  1. a rice field.
  2. rice, especially in the husk, either uncut or gathered.
  3. Slang: Often Offensive. an Irishman or a person of Irish descent.
  4. a male given name.

Origin of Paddy

1590-1600; Malay padi unhusked rice; currency of this word in E of India perhaps due to early association with Kannada batta, bhatta unhusked rice (Indo-Aryan; compare Hindi, Marathi bhāt coo

Examples for Paddy

Well, paddy, say no more about that, but let's have the story.

One time, when an armored car drove by, paddy Considine said, “Hey, Martin, are those your Hobbit residuals?”

Irish bookmaker paddy Power funded the trips to the Hermit Kingdom, but stopped after Kim Jong-Un purged his uncle.

No wonder that poor paddy has hardly a feather left to fly with.

Is paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (which won the Mann Booker Prize in 1993) the only one of your novels that stands on its own?

paddy may be lazy, but put your finger in his mouth and he'll bite.

paddy is mighty 'cute, and knows when he has a man to deal with.

Here paddy was questioned why he considered the wren as cunning a baste as the fox.

The legendary Captain paddy Brown was by some accounts the most decorated firefighter in the nation.

Was it anything that Scott saw when he was in Pyongyang that encouraged paddy Power to drop the project?

Word Value for Paddy
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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