S vs Vada - What's the difference?
s | vada |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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A type of savoury doughnut eaten as a snack in south Asia.
* 2008 , Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger , Atlantic 2009, p. 204:
(Polari) To look (at), to see
* 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
* 2002 , Paul Baker, Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men , page 143:
* 2004 , Paul Baker, Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang , page 1
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun vada is
a type of savoury doughnut eaten as a snack in south asia.As a verb vada is
(polari) to look (at), to see.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}vada
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- I bought a tea and a potato vada , and sat under a banyan tree to eat.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from (etyl), ultimately from (etyl) Alan D. Corré,"Polari Words from Lingua Franca"in: A Glossary of Lingua Franca . 5th Edition, 2005
Verb
(en verb)- Bona to vada you
- Vada well: zhooshed riah, the shyckle mauve, full slap, rouge for days, fake ogle riahs, fortuni cocktail and mother's fabest slingbacks.
- Oh vada well that omee-palone ajax who just trolled in - her with the cod lally-drags and the naff riah, dear.