Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Paddy

Paddy , adjective

[Prov. English paddy worm-eaten.]

Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
Such pady persons. — Digges (1585)
The paddy persons. — Motley

Paddy (#) , noun

[Corrupted from St. Patrick, the tutelar saint of Ireland.]

A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman; -- usually considered offensive. [Obsolescent]

Paddy , noun

[Either from Canarese bhatta or Malay pādī.]

(Botany) Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies.
Collocations (1)
Paddy bird (Zoology) , See Java sparrow, under Java.