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Plastic Paddies

Plastic Paddies is the plural of Plastic Paddy.

Meaning of Plastic Paddy

Noun

Plastic Paddy (plural Plastic Paddies)

  1. (humorous, pejorative, sometimes) A person of another ethnicity considered to be passing or posing as Irish.
    • He’s just a Plastic Paddy singing Plastic Paddy songs. In a Plastic Paddy pub that they call The Blarney Stone. There’s plastic shamrocks everywhere. There’s Guinness and green beer. And a sign in Gaelic above the bar which says “God Bless All Here”.1993, “Plastic Paddy”, in Mirrors, performed by Eric Bogle
  2. (derogatory, ethnic, slur) An Irish person considered to be inauthentically Irish, especially (UK) recent Irish arrivals to London.
    Synonyms:
    plastic

Noun capitalized: plastic Paddies

plastic Paddies

  1. (plural) plural of plastic Paddy

Questions about Plastic Paddies

What is Plastic Paddies the plural of?
Plastic Paddies is the plural of Plastic Paddy.
What part of speech is Plastic Paddies?
Plastic Paddies is a noun.

Words near Plastic Paddies in the dictionary

  1. plastic flow
  2. plastic flows
  3. plastic footprint
  4. plastic footprints
  5. plastic money
  6. Plastic Paddies
  7. Plastic Paddy
  8. plastic panties
  9. plastic pants
  10. plastic patriotism
  11. plastic pig

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Plastic Paddies (page history and authors); plastic Paddies (page history and authors); Plastic 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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