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# paddy

«paddy» in Mova's school dictionary: **a flooded field where rice is grown** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a paddy, paddies); noun (paddy — UK informal, a temper)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A paddy, or paddy field, is a flooded field where rice is grown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/#m1)

2) Paddy is rice that has not yet been husked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/#m2)

3) (UK, informal) A paddy is a fit of bad temper: «He's in a paddy». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/#m3)

4) (offensive, slang) «Paddy» is an old insulting word for an Irish person; do not use it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/#m4)

5) Paddy is also a name, a short form of Patrick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons it is used about farming in Asia, where rice grows in water. In UK homes a child having a tantrum may be said to «throw a paddy». As a name it is common in Ireland. The insulting use is a trap: it should not be used about Irish people.

### examples

- Rice grows in a paddy field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/#x1)
- Farmers plant rice in flooded paddies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/#x2)
- The terraced paddies climbed the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/#x3)
- (UK) My little brother threw a paddy at the shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/#x4)
- (UK) Don't get in a paddy, it's only a game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/#x5)
- Paddy is my uncle's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/#x6)
- Water buffalo work in the paddy fields. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/#x7)
- The paddy is dried before the husk is removed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/#x8)

### note

Plural: paddies. The temper meaning is informal British. The ethnic-insult use is rude and hurtful. As a name, it has a capital letter: Paddy.

### In the corpora

- [Rice grows in flooded fields called paddies in warm countries, and more than half of all people eat rice every day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds/13/)
- [Flooded paddy fields, built as steps on hills, drown many weeds that cannot cope.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world/2/)
- [In Belfast, Uncle Paddy pulls a coin from Ronan's ear at every single party.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «paddy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.