paddy
16
3.6
- noun
- /ˈpædi/
- UK
:
arrozal
- After the rain, the paddy was filled with water, creating a perfect environment for growing rice.
- rice paddy
- paddy field
- harvested paddy
And it landed it, but it landed on the other side of the rice Paddy dyke, facing away from us.
- And it landed it, but it landed on the other side of the rice Paddy dyke, facing away from us.
- I also in later years could imagine a soldier in Vietnam in the rice Paddy with the bullet whizzing past his head thinking, wait, he's the brave one.
- Yeah, I was repelling out of helicopters in rice paddies while people are shooting at me.
Examples
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Zhu Li walks along the mud dikes to the rice paddy, where her father and Strong Mountain are working.
Fiction book (2002) -
Workers tend a rice paddy in Laos; agricultural runoff degrades the Mekong's water quality.
Academic text (2007) -
Is this a church or a paddy field?
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Doctor, you might wanna call the rice paddy now.
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Why are you putting him in the rice paddy?
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A hut in a rice paddy?
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This will help us replant the rice paddies.
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You'll see tapioca and rice paddy fields as well as interesting villages and towns.
Academic text (1995) -
In October, after the harvest, farmers re-flood the rice paddies and manage them for crawfish production (Figure 1).
Academic text (2013) -
We were out wandering in the rice paddies on a way to a village to collect alms food one day with my teacher, Ajam Cha and some monks.
Synonyms
10
2.5
A flooded field where farmers grow rice
1
2.8
A flooded field where farmers grow rice, often in Asia
Compounds
- Slur
A person who claims to be Irish without Irish family background, often used as an insult
How Wet
- UK
16
3.6
1
5.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
Paddy comes from the Malay word padi, which means 'rice plant'. A paddy field is therefore a place for growing rice, often flooded.