George Takei

When I was going to gay bars in my 20s and 30s, the older guys there explained to me that the police would occasionally raid these places and march the clients out, load them onto paddy wagons, drive them down to the station, photograph them, fingerprint them and put their names on a list. They were doing nothing wrong, and it was criminalized.

American Actor

Tim O'Brien

Pinkville was called Pinkville because in the military maps, it was shaded a bright kind of shimmering pink, which signified what was called on the maps a 'built up' area, which was extremely misleading - 'built up' only meant there were little villages and it wasn't just desolate paddy land or unpopulated.

American Author

Jaideep Ahlawat

In my village, Kharkara, 20 km from Rohtak, I would work in our fields of sugarcane, wheat and paddy while dreaming of the day I would join the army, and receive a hero's welcome every time I came home on leave. In our part of the world, a soldier is a star.

Indian Actor

Hima Das

I am still the same village girl from Dhing who used to help my father in the paddy field, help mother in household chores, run for hours on the streets of Dhing, play football with my Mon Jai group friends.

Indian Athlete

Eddie Marsan

Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.

English Actor

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

Politician

Amarinder Singh

Every farmer in Punjab grows paddy and wheat besides cotton in the south western districts.

Indian Politician

Mahima Chaudhry

Running around trees and across paddy fields can be exhausting after a while.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

Sreenivasan

I started paddy cultivation not for profit.

Used mainly to describe fields for growing rice, much like a wheat field.

Agricultural Term

The term 'paddy' is common in countries that grow rice as a staple food.

Geographic Specificity

While it's a casual term for Irish people, some might find it stereotyping or offensive.

Cultural Sensitivity

It's a casual nickname and not suitable for formal contexts.

Informal Use

A friendly, diminutive form of the name Patrick, often used among family and friends.

Casual Nickname

Expresses a minor, often childish, fit of anger or frustration.

Emotional Expression

Refers to rice in its raw, unprocessed form, typically used in cooking contexts.

Culinary Reference

 I'm asking him the same question you know he's a paddy field it's a problem he says yeah it's a paddy field they do look at the word crossfire and you realized what must have happened in the paddy field do you make the connection that's why people worry that's why yeah and I said does everyone know what crossfire is my three-year-old daughter

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 beautiful little paddy on the end of its fingers and it's mitten like glove of skin right the way up to going up towards the elbow the folds of skin and you can see the relative position of the skin for the radius and older there in

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 And she does it a few thousand times every day. The rice that you ate in the lunch, and you will eat today, is transplanted by women bending in a very awkward posture, millions of them, every season, in the paddy season,

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 and the people who can understand them will be very, very successful. Let me just give you one final example of what that means. I was in Shanghai, in an office block built on what was a rice paddy five years ago --

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 dung beetle fauna now well if you go out there and look under a bison paddy you should do that just take one turn it around you see there are very few dung beetles oh here's a wonderful fresh

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 you might be affecting yours or your neighbor's paddy lower down. They also started practicing organic farming and building their own farm machinery with the help of local blacksmiths.

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 wondering what I'm looking at I'd better go and tell him paddy is telling Craig to help me Craig and I was so confused and I was concentrating so hard on the terrain I'd better go tell

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 Do you have a guess? How many? Fifty. One would be too little. Fifty people. And there were no accessible paddy wagons, so they had to just kind of deal with us.

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 occur and in Torchwood Oh paddy depends you know there's obviously times when both of those options are important so strengths and experience can be useful

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 haven't seen in forever now it's interesting to watch pretty and in develop suckling compared to when we watch ribbon and paddy and how cute and