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viddy

viddy noun: a video or video recording.

Noun

viddy (plural viddies)

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

Verb

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

  1. (rare) To see; to view.
    • 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
    • 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

Synonyms of viddy

Forms of viddy

Noun
pluralviddies
Verb
third-person singular presentviddies
present participleviddying
past participleviddied
pastviddied

Origin of viddy

From video (“video recording”) + -y.

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

Words formed from viddy

Phrases with viddy

Questions about viddy

What does viddy mean?
Viddy means a video or video recording.
What part of speech is viddy?
Viddy can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of viddy?
The plural of viddy is viddies.

Words near viddy in the dictionary

  1. vidders
  2. viddied
  3. viddies
  4. vidding
  5. viddui
  6. viddy
  7. viddy game
  8. viddy games
  9. viddying
  10. vide
  11. vide infra

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