Plastic Paddy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person of another ethnicity considered to be passing or posing as Irish. humorous,pejorative,sometimes
    — 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”.
  2. An Irish person considered to be inauthentically Irish, especially (UK) recent Irish arrivals to London. derogatory,ethnic,slur

词形变化

Plastic Paddies plural plastic Paddy alternative

词源

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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