viddy
English
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Etymology 1
From video (“video recording”) + -y.
Noun
viddy (plural viddies)
- (slang) A video or video recording.
- Have you seen Holly in her latest viddy? She is hot.
Etymology 2
From Russian ви́деть (vídetʹ, “to see”); coined in the Anthony Burgess novel, A Clockwork Orange.
Verb
viddy (third-person singular simple present viddies, present participle viddying, simple past and past participle viddied)
- (nonce word) To see; to view.
- 1963 [1962], Anthony Burgess, chapter 1, in A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page 5:
- 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.
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