Plastic Paddy

Noun

humorous pejorative sometimes derogatory ethnic slur

(humorous, sometimes pejorative) A person of another ethnicity considered to be passing or posing as Irish.

Japanese Meaning

冗談交じり、または侮蔑的に、アイルランド系であるかのように振る舞う、実際には他民族の人物を指す表現。

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

セントパトリックデーのパレードで、彼は家族がアイルランド人ではないのに緑の帽子をかぶっていたため、冗談めかしてアイルランド人のふりをする人と呼ばれた。

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Sense（1）

(humorous, sometimes pejorative) A person of another ethnicity considered to be passing or posing as Irish.

He’s just a Plastic Paddy singing Plastic Paddy songs. I’m 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”.

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Sense（2）

(derogatory, ethnic slur) An Irish person considered to be inauthentically Irish, especially (UK) recent Irish arrivals to London.

Plastic Paddies

（ plural ）

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