viddy

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noun

A video or video recording.

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

Scrabble 13

Meanings

viddy1

nounviddy (plural viddies)

plural viddies

  1. slangA video or video recording.

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

viddy2

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

present singular third person viddies · participle present viddying · participle past viddied · past viddied

  1. rareTo see; to view.

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

    2015 February 13, The Austin Chronicle, page 38
    2 more examples

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

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo see; to view.

Origin

viddy · noun

From video (“video recording”) + -y.

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viddy · verb

  1. Russianви́деть“to see”
  2. Englishviddy

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

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MLA

“viddy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/viddy. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “viddy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/viddy.

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