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Here’s me finishing it in my head with a Knick knack paddy wack give a dog a bone, human man is rolling home
Just realised that old rhyme seems maybe offensive to Irish people with paddy wack, makes sense for a lot of old English nursery rhymes…
https://www.etymonline.com/word/paddy
It's not clear if it's a slur or not, or just slang for referring to an Irishman.
I think it might be closer to referring to a Scotsman as "a Scot" than anything pejorative.
Then again, you never know with the English... and it ultimately comes down to how the Irish feel about it
I think anything that's slang for an ethnic group has like a 90% probability of being a slur
If it doesn't start as one, it becomes one.