viddy

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Etymology 1

From video (“video recording”) +‎ -y.

Noun

viddy (plural viddies)

1. (slang) A video or video recording.

   Have you seen Holly in her latest viddy? She is hot.

Derived terms

• viddy game

Etymology 2

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

Verb

viddy (third-person singular simple present viddies, present participle viddying, simple past and past participle viddied)

1. (rare) To see; to view.

   Synonyms: have a look, take a look, take a gander

   • 1962, Anthony Burgess, chapter 1, in A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1963, →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.

   • 2011 October, Vinayak Varma, “The Nerdsmith”, in Brainwave, volume 1, number 11, page 1:

     In this issue of Brainwave, we viddy the Internet’s many wonders, its dangers, and some of the people responsible for both.

   • 2015 February 13, The Austin Chronicle, page 38:

     This party’s at Dozen Street, so you get to viddy the glorious Stefanie Distefano peacock mural, too.

Translations

examine, observe — see take a look