Plastic Paddy
Plastic Paddy noun: a person of another ethnicity considered to be passing or posing as Irish.
Noun (1)
Plastic Paddy (plural Plastic Paddies)
- 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
- An Irish person considered to be inauthentically Irish, especially (UK) recent Irish arrivals to London.
- Synonyms:
- plastic
Noun (2) capitalized: plastic Paddy
plastic Paddy (plural plastic Paddies)
- Alternative letter-case form of Plastic Paddy.
Synonyms of Plastic Paddy
Forms of Plastic Paddy
| plural | Plastic Paddies |
|---|---|
| alternative form | plastic Paddy |
| plural | plastic Paddies |
Origin of Plastic Paddy
From the sense of plastic as fake, ersatz, inauthentic, etc. and Paddy (“Patrick”) as a generic name for any Irish man.
Words that rhyme with Plastic Paddy
Questions about Plastic Paddy
- What does Plastic Paddy mean?
- Plastic Paddy means a person of another ethnicity considered to be passing or posing as Irish.
- What part of speech is Plastic Paddy?
- Plastic Paddy is a noun.
- What is the plural of Plastic Paddy?
- The plural of Plastic Paddy is Plastic Paddies.
Words near Plastic Paddy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Plastic Paddy (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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