vidiotn.
/ˈvɪdɪət/, U.S. /ˈvɪdiət/ slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). derogatory.
A habitual, undiscriminating viewer of television or player of video games. Cf. couch potato n. at couch n.1 Additions.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer > watching television
vidiot1949
couch potato1979
Norm1980
couch surfer1991
1949 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 21 Mar. 4/4 Spade Cooley will televise a western burlesque of the Robert E Sherwood play [sc. Idiot's Delight] with a new title, ‘Vidiot's Delight’.
1951 Hopewell (New Jersey) Herald 25 July 7/2 A miniature icebox enabling a videot to get a cold beer without leaving the picture.
1968 TV Times (Austral.) 28 Feb. 18/4 The image of the American ‘vidiot’, who will sit and watch anything for hours on end is not borne out by the facts.
1993 D. Sheff Game Over ix. 206 The company's arguments did little to stem the growing concern about a generation of ‘vidiots’, hypnotized kids who blindly follow a pied piper in the form of Super Mario.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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