subs. (common).—1.  An Irishman: also PADDY-WHACK and PADDYLANDER. Hence, PADDY-LAND = Ireland.—GROSE (1785).

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  ENGLISH SYNONYMS.  Bog-trotter; Emeralder; Mick, mike or micky; paddylander; paddy-whack; Pat; patent Frenchman; patlander; shirt.

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  1801.  C. K. SHARPE [Correspondence (1888), i. 113]. You would be much surprised to see these cronies of mine … they are all there PADDIES.

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  1817.  SCOTT, The Search after Happiness, xxii.

        But the odds that foil’d Hercules foil’d PADDY WHACK … Alack!
Up-bubboo! PADDY had not—a shirt to his back!!!

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  1850.  F. E. SMEDLEY, Frank Fairlegh, lx. After I had had a good laugh … I … ‘discoorsed’ ’em, as PADDY calls it.

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  1874.  E. L. LINTON, Patricia Kemball, xii. He once went over on business to what he always called PADDY-LAND.

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  18[?].  Irish Song [HOTTEN]. I’m PADDY WHACK, from Ballyhack.

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  2.  (common).—A rage; a passion: also PADDY-WHACK.

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  TO COME PADDY OVER, verb. phr. (American).—To bamboozle; to humbug.

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