viddyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From video (“video recording”) +‎ -y.

名詞

viddy (複数形 viddies)

1. (slang) A video or video recording.

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

語源 2

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

動詞

viddy (三人称単数 現在形 viddies, 現在分詞 viddying, 過去形および過去分詞形 viddied)

1. (rare) To see; to view. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
   • 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.

   • 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.

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