paddy

IPA: pˈædi

Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
(countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.
A fit of temper; a tantrum.
(African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
(colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.
A snowy sheathbill.
An Irish nickname for Patrick.
(slang, sometimes offensive) An Irish person.

Examples of "paddy" in Sentences

Then we called the paddy wagon, and I gave the order to arrest them.
A rice paddy is drained and allowed to dry to just the right consistency.
“Something that will convince me not to vanquish your butts or call the paddy wagon,” Paige said.
A group of farmers have created 'murals' by planting rice in different colors in Japanese paddy fields
Yes, in those days, riding in the "Black Maria," as they used to call the paddy wagon, meant more than it does today.
A simple but rude mill is in use in Siam, and many parts of India, for hulling paddy, which is similar to those used 4,000 years ago.
Rice is conventionally grown under conditions of inundation, when it is referred to as paddy (the term is also used for the bunded plot in which rice is grown) or as wet-land or low-land rice.
Of all the common agricultural wastes, rice husks (also called paddy husks) yield the largest quantity of ash - around 20 % by weight - which also has the highest silica content - around 93 % by weight.
"All the summer-sown crops in north India will be down by 30% except paddy, which is yet to be sown in a big way," Krishan Bir Chaudhury, president of Bharatiya Krishak Samaj (Indian Farmer's Society) said.