Citations:vada

English citations of vada and varder

Noun: "savoury doughnut"

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• 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic 2009, page 204:

  I bought a tea and a potato vada, and sat under a banyan tree to eat.

Verb: "to look"

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• 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Our Street Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor‎^[1], 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.

• 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Our Street Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor‎^[2], volume 3, published 1861, Strolling Actors, page 139:

  "The mummers have got a slang of their own, which parties connected with the perfession^[sic] generally use. […] "'Vada the glaze' is—Look at the window.

• 1967, Barry Took, Marty Feldman, Round the Horne, spoken by Sandy (Kenneth Williams):

  There, look, Mr. Horne! Vada that great butch lucoddy!

• 1967, Barry Took, Marty Feldman, “Gaslight Son of Flicker”, in Round the Horne, spoken by Sandy (Kenneth Williams):

  You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.

• 1997, Ian Lucas, “The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, in Anna Livia, Kira Hall, editors, Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, page 90:

  Bona to vada you

• 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.

• 2002, Paul Baker, Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men, page 143:

  Vada well: zhooshed riah, the shyckle mauve, full slap, rouge for days, fake ogle riahs, fortuni cocktail and mother's fabest slingbacks.

• 2004, Paul Baker, Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang, page 1:

  Oh vada well that omee-palone ajax who just trolled in - her with the cod lally-drags and the naff riah, dear.

• 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

  Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.