Plastic Paddy
Meanings
noun
- A person of another ethnicity considered to be passing or posing as Irish.
- An Irish person considered to be inauthentically Irish, especially (UK) recent Irish arrivals to London.
noun
- Alternative form of Plastic Paddy.
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Etymology
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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