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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, 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, volume 3, published 1861, Strolling Actors, page 139:"The mummers have got a slang of their own, which parties connected with the perfession generally use. "'Vada the glaze' is—Look at the window.
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:Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.