verb General Slang

Viddy

/ˈvɪdi/ · verb · slang

Nadsat for to see or to watch, from the Russian 'videt'.

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Often heard as an imperative inviting someone to look at a spectacle.

“Viddy this, he says, holding up the stolen britva.”
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In Nadsat, to viddy is to see, look at, or watch. Source word: Russian 'videt' (видеть), 'to see'; some readers also hear the Latin 'video', 'I see'.

“'Viddy well, little brother' is the line tied to Alex's forced film-watching during the Ludovico treatment.”
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Used to mean to understand or grasp, much like the English 'I see'.

“Do you viddy what I mean, droogie? asks one character of another.”
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Viddy In A Sentence

I viddied the whole thing from across the street.
You should have viddied his litso when the lights came up.
Viddy how the lewdies scatter when we come down the road.

Origin & Usage

Coined by Burgess in A Clockwork Orange (1962) from the Russian 'videt', 'to see', with a likely deliberate echo of Latin 'video'. Popularised further by Kubrick's 1971 film and its 'viddy well' tagline.

Variants viddiedviddying
Tags #nadsat#clockwork-orange#fictional#literary#perception

People Also Ask

What does viddy mean?

To viddy is Nadsat for to see or watch, from the Russian verb 'videt', to see.

Where does the phrase 'viddy well' come from?

It appears in A Clockwork Orange around Alex's aversion therapy and was amplified by Kubrick's 1971 film.

Is viddy connected to the word video?

The root is Russian 'videt', but Burgess likely welcomed the resemblance to Latin 'video', 'I see'.

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