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paddy ['pædi]

n. 稻, 谷, 爱尔兰人, 警察

[法] 警察

paddy

[ noun ]

(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent

<noun.person>

an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown

<noun.location>

rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field

<noun.food>

Paddy \Pad"dy\, a. [Prov. E. paddy worm-eaten.]
Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. ``Such pady persons.'' --Digges
(1585). ``The paddy persons.'' --Motley.

Paddy \Pad"dy\, n.; pl. {Paddies}. [Corrupted fr. St. Patrick,
the tutelar saint of Ireland.]
A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman; -- usually
considered offensive. [Obsolescent]
[1913 Webster +PJC]

Paddy \Pad"dy\, n. [Either fr. Canarese bhatta or Malay
p[=a]d[=i].] (Bot.)
Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies.

{Paddy bird}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Java sparrow}, under {Java}.

"We may hand out tickets, or we may bring a paddy wagon up there and haul them away," Norbert Boe, acting forest supervisor of the Shawnee National Forest, said Sunday.
Besides, the paddy dikes help control floods.
Even though the growers have by now disposed of 90 per cent of the 1991-92 crop, they are likely to switch some land from jute to paddy and oilseeds in view of the reaction in fibre prices, according to Mr Shankar Ladia, spokesman for jute trade.
Next to the paddy, the foundation has set up stalls to sell organic vegetables and free-range eggs.
Irrigation, crucial in this area plagued by alternating drought and flood, is done either by operating small wooden pumps or tossing water from one paddy to another by bucket.
Some lay on the icy ground as riot-equipped police calmly picked them up and deposited them in paddy wagons.
The agency said the storm destroyed about 395,200 acres of rice paddy and severely damaged many thatched-roof homes.
When harvested in September, the paddy will yield just 20kg.
The Bengali-language daily Sangbad said flooding disrupted road links and washed away paddy crops over a wide area.
A news photographer arrested while covering an anti-abortion protest was found innocent March 7 of a charge that he failed to obey a police order to move away as officers carried a demonstrator to the paddy wagon.
It's the winter rice harvest, and the talk in the paddy fields and marketplaces is about the crop - and, like everywhere else in Bangladesh, politics.
Behind him are the paddy fields and creeks where he and the other villagers supplement their income by farming rice or catching fish. 'I don't want to move,' says Mr Hien.
Since then paddy production has fallen away slightly, owing mainly to the impact of the separatist war in the north and east.
The crowd of about 2,500 Sinhalese rice paddy farmers flocked to Welikande, a remote jungle village about 100 miles northeast of Colombo, to mourn victims of Monday night's massacre.
The tall stranger with muddied boots and wind-mussed hair stepped into Kazuo Yashiro's rice paddy just as the startled Japanese farmer prepared to thresh the last of the autumn harvest.

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