Tra từ paddy - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

pad‧dy/ˈpædi/ noun (plural paddies) [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1600-1700; Language : Malay; Origin : padi]
1. (also paddy field) a field in which rice is grown in water SYN rice paddy

2. British English informal a state of being angry or upset:
　 ▪ The news put Mum in a bit of a paddy.

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
paddy wagon
rice paddy
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
field
▪ The building of irrigation systems and paddy fields is costly in terms of time and effort.
▪ The paddy fields have turned a feathery yellow.
▪ Instead, towards sunset, he led us to another village, off the highway and surrounded by paddy fields.
▪ Captain Samphan was walking fast across the road in the middle distance, ordering some of the troops into the paddy field.
▪ In the old days a suitor sometimes had to work in his prospective father-in-law's paddy fields for three years.
▪ Explosions were continuing in the paddy field, but they began a conversation as though on a quiet street.
▪ Take that paddy field, well stocked with fish, rice and ducks.
▪ Then I heard a sharp, fast cracking, and looked towards the paddy field.
rice
▪ Methane is also given off by rice paddies and ruminant animals, including cattle.
▪ Chambers panicked and buried himself and the machine gun in the stupid rice paddy.
▪ There is what looks to be a white coastline, brilliant greens, the rice paddies etched on the land.
▪ The en-tire company moved across a rice paddy in echelon formation.
▪ Instead of picking up a gun that morning, Charlie went out into the rice paddies and worked.
▪ No trees or foothills this time; it was all cleared land, dry rice paddies, and sandy, weed-patched fields.
▪ In nature Marsilea is found in ponds, ditches, swamps, rice paddies, and other areas with standing water.
wagon
▪ It had been an honest mistake, though, the paddy wagon men believing he was dead or dying.
▪ They arrested the peaceful marchers, put them in paddy wagons, and charged them with disorderly conduct.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In other letters he wrote about the great beauty of the country, the paddies and mountains and jungles.
▪ It had been an honest mistake, though, the paddy wagon men believing he was dead or dying.
▪ Methane is also given off by rice paddies and ruminant animals, including cattle.
▪ The paddy fields have turned a feathery yellow.
▪ The building of irrigation systems and paddy fields is costly in terms of time and effort.
▪ There is what looks to be a white coastline, brilliant greens, the rice paddies etched on the land.
▪ Uncle Vernon had flown into a paddy on account of the seven lessons left outstanding.
▪ Water buffalo pulled plows or wallowed in the paddies.