Paddy

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Paddy has these meanings:-

• A paddy field, a field for cultivating rice or other semi-aquatic crops.
• Paddy, a slang term in British English for an Irish person. It is a diminutive of the Irish forename Pádraig, the equivalent of the English "Patrick", and although it is also in use as an ordinary forename its use as slang is now considered offensive or contemptuous by many people. Plastic Paddy is used to describe foreign nationals that harbour a nostalgic claim of 'Irishness' due to some distant relationship in their ancestral tree. See also Pejorative words and phrases; Terms of disparagement; Insult.
• Paddy Whiskey, a brand of Irish Whiskey manufactured by Irish Distillers Ltd.
• Paddywagon
• In Star Wars, it is a nickname for the Jedi rank, Padawan.

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