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Paddy vs Sedges - What's the difference?

paddy | sedges |

As nouns the difference between paddy and sedges

is that paddy is an irish person while sedges is .

As a proper noun paddy

is an irish nickname for patrick.

paddy

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(paddies)
  • Rice, before it is milled.
  • An irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.

    • See also

    * paddy paw

    Etymology 2

    English dialect .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
  • * Digges (1585)
  • * John Lothrop Motley
    • Even after the expiration of four months the condition of the paddy persons continued most destitute. The English soldiers became mere barefoot starving beggars in the streets
    (Webster 1913)

    sedges

    English

    Noun

    (head)