# Plastic Paddy

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A person of another ethnicity considered to be passing or posing as Irish.
2. An Irish person considered to be inauthentically Irish, especially (UK) recent Irish arrivals to London.

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

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/plastic-paddy