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vada en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
/ˈvɑːdə/
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi वड़ा (vaṛā).
Meanings
A type of savoury doughnut eaten as a snack in south Asia.
I bought a tea and a potato vada, and sat under a banyan tree to eat. 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 204:
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or ବରା (Asian doughnut) · hi बड़ा (Asian doughnut) · nl bara (Asian doughnut) · te వడ (Asian doughnut) · hns bára (Sarnami) (Asian doughnut) · mr वडा (Asian doughnut) · hi वड़ा (Asian doughnut) · tcy ವಡೆ (Asian doughnut) · ml വട (Asian doughnut) · ms wade (Asian doughnut) · ur وڑا (Asian doughnut) · srn bara (Asian doughnut) · gu વડા (Asian doughnut) · kn ವಡೆ (Asian doughnut) · ta வடை (Asian doughnut) · pa ਵੜਾ (Asian doughnut)
vada en · VERB · etymology 2
Pronunciation
/ˈvɑːdə/
Etymology
Borrowed from Sabir vada, ultimately from Italian vedere (“to see”)
Meanings
(Polari) To look (at), to see.
Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona. 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:
[…]"The mummers have got a slang of their own, which parties connected with the perfession^([sic – meaning profession]) generally use. […]
"'Vada the glaze' is—Look at the window.[…]" 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Our Street Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 3, published 1861, Strolling Actors, page 139:
You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface. 1967, Barry Took, Marty Feldman, “Gaslight Son of Flicker”, in Round the Horne, spoken by Sandy (Kenneth Williams):