Vada vs Pada - What's the difference?
vada | pada |
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
The basic metric unit of Vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in Sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza.
*1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 79:
*:There were quatrains and broken verses and entire poems. There were padas that she had started and scratched out.
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As nouns the difference between vada and pada
is that vada is a type of savoury doughnut eaten as a snack in south asia while pada is the basic metric unit of vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza.As a verb vada
is (polari) to look (at), to see.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.