a. Sc. Also vady, vaudie. [Of obscure origin.] a. Elated, delighted. b. Stout, stalwart. c. Gay or fine in appearance.
c. 1720. W. Meston, ‘How lang shall our land,’ in Jacobite Songs (1871), 41. Then must we be sad, while the traitors are vaudie, Till we get a sight o’ our ain bonnie laddie.
1793. Piper of Peebles, 7. Cummers fled and hurl’d as weel On ice, as ony vady chiel.
1805. Andr. Scott, Poems (1808), 222. In blue worset boots that my auld mither span, I’ve aft been fu’ vaudy [1821 vanty] sin’ I was a man.
a. 1869. Charles Spence, Poems (1898), 72. Now I got new trews and coat, And stalked about in trappings vaudie.
