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paddy noun- a white person US
- If it had come down to a point where I had to hit a paddy, I’d have hit him without any thought — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 3, 1945
- We ought to beat the hell out of those paddies! — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 268, 1947
- I told his paddy and solemnly did swear / no more farm for me–to damn many ups out there. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 198, 1966
- — Current Slang, p. 4, Fall 1966
- My friend Crutch had told me there were a lot of paddies out there, and they didn’t dig Negroes or Puerto Ricans. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 81, 1967
- [S]he was in L.A. and she was tough and she wanted furniture and a paddy husband. Paddy means white in Pachuco. — Eve Babitz, Eve’s Hollywood, p. 47, 1974
- a police officer US
- I was made the lookout man and told to stick around out front with my eyes peeled for any signs of John Law. When a paddy showed himself I would tap on the window with a key, and in five seconds a billiard tournament was going full blast. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 20, 1946
- Every time I saw a paddy roll by in a car, I picked up one of the half-bricks, and threw it at the motherfuckers. — Bobby Seale, Seize the Time, p. 3, 1970
- a temper, a rage UK, 1894
- I knew exactly the reason for his little paddy[.] — Danny King, The Bank Robber Diaries, p. 63, 2002
- an Irish person UK, 1780
- Fuck me, if there’s one thing we poor bloody Paddies should have learned, it is never to trust a British fucking leftie liberal bastard. — James Hawes, Dead Long Enough, p. 253, 2000
- Besides the paddies, Albany was full of high-profile prisoners. — Jimmy Stockin, On The Cobbles, p. 141, 2000
- [A] groaner who didn’t like the food and didn’t like the Paddies and didn’t like the Pakis and didn’t like the poofs. — John King, White Trash, p. 65, 2001
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