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General Slang
vada the dolly eek
· phrase · polari
Polari for 'look at the pretty face' — vada = look, dolly = pretty, eek = face.
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Classic Polari, the secret slang of mid-20th-century British gay men. Breaks down as vada (look at), dolly (pretty/nice), eek (face) — so 'look at the pretty face'. Often heard in the fuller greeting 'bona to vada your dolly old eek' ('lovely to see your pretty old face'), basically a campy 'hello, gorgeous'. Polari let gay men flirt and clock each other openly back when being gay was illegal in Britain.
“He walked in looking incredible and the whole bar went 'ooh, vada the dolly eek!'”
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vada the dolly eek In A Sentence
He walked in looking incredible and the whole bar went 'ooh, vada the dolly eek!'
Origin & Usage
Polari, the British gay cant (roughly 1900s–1970s) drawn from Italian, Romani, rhyming slang and theatre cant; famed via the radio show Round the Horne.
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