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viddy en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

From video (“video recording”) + -y.

Meanings

  1. (slang) A video or video recording.
    • Have you seen Holly in her latest viddy? She is hot.

Forms

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viddies Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

viddy game

viddy en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Russian ви́деть (vídetʹ, “to see”); originally a fictional slang term used by the droogs in Anthony Burgess's novel, A Clockwork Orange.

Meanings

  1. (rare) To see; to view.
    • In this issue of Brainwave, we viddy the Internet’s many wonders, its dangers, and some of the people responsible for both. 2011 October, Vinayak Varma, “The Nerdsmith”, in Brainwave, volume 1, number 11, page 1:
    • This party’s at Dozen Street, so you get to viddy the glorious Stefanie Distefano peacock mural, too. 2015 February 13, The Austin Chronicle, page 38:
    • You could viddy it all right, all of it, very clear—tables, the stereo, the lights, the sharps and the malchicks—but it was like some veshch that used to be there but was not there not no more. 1962, Anthony Burgess, chapter 1, in A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1963, →ISBN, page 5:

Forms

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viddies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
viddying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
viddied Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
viddied Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

take a look · have a look · take a gander

wikipedia: Anthony Burgess · wikipedia: A_Clockwork_Orange_(novel)