vady (noun)
Devon, Sussex
Something carried about by a traveller to provide comforts during the journey. From Devon: ‘Got something in my vady, that will make your pretty eyes flash’. It is a shortened form of vade mecum, Latin for ‘go with me’.
viewly (adjective)
Cumberland, Derbyshire, Durham, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire
Sightly, good to look at, handsome, comely. From Yorkshire: ‘Them’s as viewly a pig as onny man need wish ti see’. Even more positive would be to describe something as viewlysome.
vitrit or vitrid (adjective)
Cheshire
Angry, malicious, vicious, bitter. ‘Hoo’s very vitrid at him’. It’s a shortened form of inveterate, which in its earliest recorded sense meant ‘full of hatred’. In Somerset, if you were vittery you were quick-tempered or spiteful.
vizzy (noun)
Scotland
A look, a view, a scrutinizing gaze. From Edinburgh: ‘We could by putting out our heads have a vizzy of the grand ancient building’. The word comes from French visée, ‘an aim taken by using the eyes’, and was much used in English when shooting at something. From Selkirkshire: ‘Trying how weel they could vizy at the wild ducks’.
voxy (adjective)
Devon
Of the weather: deceptive, uncertain. ‘’Tis a voxy day tho’; but I pray the Loord to kape it off a bit’. In other words, the weather is behaving as cunningly as a fox – with a typical West Country change of f to v.