Paddyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈpædi/
• 韻: -ædi
• Homophone: Paddy

語源 1

Borrowed from Malay padi (“paddy plant”). Doublet of palay.

名詞

paddy (countable and uncountable, plural paddies)

1. Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested. [from 17th c.]

   Synonym: palay

   • 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

     Taking out a handful of paddy the old woman exclaimed, “Look how good this paddy is! It is called Malbhog – it makes excellent puffed rice.”

2. (countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown. [from 20th c.]

派生語

語源 2

English dialect paddy (“worm-eaten”).

形容詞

paddy (comparative more paddy, superlative most paddy)

1. (obsolete) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
   • 1860, John Lothrop Motley, The United Netherlands:

     Even after the expiration of four months the condition of the paddy persons continued most destitute. The English soldiers became mere barefoot starving beggars in the streets […]

   • 1995, Maureen Borland, D.S. MacColl: Painter, Poet, Art Critic, page 41:

     Becca wrote to Lizzie of her brother's incessant demands: Suthie came to me in a very paddy state and said 'Now ... you must bind a book for me.'

   • 2015, Brian Keenan, An Evil Cradling, page 197:

     Now, now, we are getting very paddy today, aren't we John?

語源 3

Possibly from Paddy (“Irishman”).

名詞

paddy (plural paddies)

1. A fit of temper; a tantrum.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tantrum

   throw a paddy etc.

   • 2013, Mike Brown, Adventures with Czech George, page 17:

     I like the story of the Emperor Frederick who got into a paddy with his cook, and shouted: 'I am the Emperor, and I want dumplings.'

2. (African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
   • 2000, Requiem For a Dream, spoken by Big Tim (Keith David):

     You know what I like best about paddy chicks? They give good head. Black broads don’t know nothing about giving head. I don’t know why. Might be it has something to do with some ancient tribal custom.

3. (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
4. A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.

派生した語

語源 4

Perhaps after the paddy bird, or egret. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

名詞

paddy (plural paddies)

1. A snowy sheathbill.

参考

• paddy paw