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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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Paddy
noun
an Irishman
18-
.
etymology:
pet name; a diminutive of
Patrick
; collected by
RD
note:
Grose and Egan (1823): ‘The general name for an Irishman...’