Plastic Paddy

短语

词形变化

Plastic Paddies 复数 Plastic Paddies

别名

plastic Paddy

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person of another ethnicity considered to be passing or posing as Irish.

    幽默 贬义
  2. 2.

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

    贬义

词源

From the sense of plastic as fake, ersatz, inauthentic, etc. and Paddy (“Patrick”) as a generic name for any Irish man.

来源：wiktionary