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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pædi/
• Rhymes: -ædi

Etymology 1

From Malay padi (“paddy plant”).

Noun

paddy (plural paddies)

1. Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested. [from 17th c.]
   • 2011, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, 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. A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown. [from 20th c.]

Translations

See also

• paddy paw

Etymology 2

English dialect paddy (“worm-eaten”).

Adjective

paddy (comparative more paddy, superlative most paddy)

1. (obsolete) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Digges to this entry?)
   • 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 […]

Etymology 3

Possibly from Paddy (“Irishman”)

Noun

paddy (plural paddies)

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

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:tantrum

English

Etymology

• (potato): From the common Irish name; compare murphy (“a potato”).
• (computer mouse resolution): An allusion to the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?ki/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Noun

mickey (plural mickeys)

1. (chiefly Canada, informal) A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket. [from the 1910s]

2. (US, slang) A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged. [from the 1930s]
3. (US, slang, dated, Depression Era) A potato. [from the 1930s]

4. (chiefly Ireland, informal) The penis. [from the 1900s]

5. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) The vagina. [from the early 1900s]
6. (Australia, informal) A well-known honeyeater, the Noisy Miner, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia. [from the 1910s]
7. (rural Australia, informal) A young bull, especially one that is unbranded and running wild. [from the 1870s]
8. (Cockney rhyming slang) piss, shortened and more commonly used form of Mickey Bliss.
9. (computing) The resolution of a mouse: the smallest measurable distance it can move the cursor, used as a unit of length.

Verb

mickey (third-person singular simple present mickeys, present participle mickeying, simple past and past participle mickeyed)

1. To secretly slip drugs into somebody's drink.

Derived terms

• Texas mickey

Related terms

• See take the mickey