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paddie

paddie is the dated form of paddy.

Meaning of paddy

Noun (1)

paddy (countable and uncountable, plural paddies)

  1. Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
    • 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.”2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee
    Synonyms:
    palay
  2. (countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.

Noun (2)

paddy (plural paddies)

  1. A fit of temper; a tantrum.
    • throw a paddy etc.
  2. (slang, African-American Vernacular) A white person.
    • 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.2000, Requiem For a Dream, spoken by Big Tim (Keith David)
  3. (England, colloquial) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
  4. A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.

See all 10 meanings of paddy

Forms of paddie

pluralpaddies

Questions about paddie

What is paddie the dated form of?
Paddie is the dated form of paddy.

Words near paddie in the dictionary

  1. padded up
  2. paddedness
  3. Padden
  4. padder
  5. padders
  6. paddie
  7. paddies
  8. padding
  9. padding down
  10. padding out
  11. padding the hoof

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paddie (page history and authors); paddy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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