varder

English

Verb

varder (third-person singular simple present varders, present participle vardering, simple past and past participle vardered)

1. (Polari) Alternative spelling of vada (“to see”).
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Our Street Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor‎, volume 3, published 1861, The History of Punch, page 50:

     And then, sometimes the blinds is all drawed down, on account of the sun, and that cooks our goose; or, it's too hot for people to stop and varder—that means, see.

   • 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:

     Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:vada.

Swedish

Verb

varder

1. present indicative of varda