Meaning of Plastic Paddy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person of another ethnicity considered to be passing or posing as Irish.
   humorous, pejorative, sometimes
2. An Irish person considered to be inauthentically Irish, especially (UK) recent Irish arrivals to London.
   derogatory, ethnic, slur

Equivalents

Examples

“He’s just a Plastic Paddy singing Plastic Paddy songs. In 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”.”

CEFR level