Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

plastic paddy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables: plas-tic -pad-dy
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person of another ethnicity considered to be passing or posing as Irish.

Humorous

noun

An Irish person considered to be inauthentically Irish, especially (UK) recent Irish arrivals to London.

Derogatory

noun

Alternative letter-case form of Plastic Paddy.

Example Sentences

"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”."

Etymology

From the sense of plastic as fake, ersatz, inauthentic, etc. and Paddy (“Patrick”) as a generic name for any Irish man.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Plastic Paddies (plural)

Phrases

Hollywood Irish

Frequently Paired Words

Hollywood Irish

Synonyms

plastic

Rhymes With

daddy paddy maddy caddy addy caddie baddie laddie laddy haddy zaddy haddie

Questions

What does plastic paddy mean?: A person of another ethnicity considered to be passing or posing as Irish.
Where does plastic paddy come from?: From the sense of plastic as fake, ersatz, inauthentic, etc. and Paddy (“Patrick”) as a generic name for any Irish man.

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