Covidy is an adjective that describes anything pertaining to Covid 19 and the pandemic. Wiktionary’s definition is as follows:
– Infected with or containing the COVID-19 virus.
– Relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Urban dictionary has a few definitions of Covidy and I’ve listed two of them below:
Definition #1: “an adjective or adverb applied to any and all items and/or behaviors related to the germy world of Covid 19 brought into a quarantined household by the outside world.
–Keep that covidy grocery bag out of my kitchen! And while you’re at it, stop walking around the touching everything without washing your hands first and acting all covidy like that. Ugghh” (Dallasjeni).
Definition #2: “Related to, suffering from, or seeming to suffer from COVID-19 or the ill-effects of the quarantine.
–‘Damn, John, that’s a pretty covidy haircut you’ve got there.’ Or: ‘That sweaty covidy cougher in the grocery store was freaking me out’” (Dictionnaire Diabolique).
Covidy has appeared in a few news articles. As recently as May 30, 2022, the New Zealand Herald reported that the plane Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her delegation were traveling in, broke down in Washington DC and her press secretary, Andrew Campbell, tested positive for Covid-19 in San Francisco. Political editor Claire Trevett wrote that “Ardern arranged her own press conference with [the] media – a job usually done by Campbell. Ardern said she was ‘cutting out the middle man’ since Campbell was ‘a bit Covidy at the moment’ and it was still very early in San Francisco” (Trevett).
American stand-up comedian DeRay Davis recently tweeted “new word: Covidy” on January 4, 2022:
Covidy also found its way into designer clothing as illustrated below by an Etsy sweatshirt with an “It’s too Covidy Outside” design.
Social Media Trends as of June 6, 2022
Facebook #covidy: people are posting about this
Instagram #covidy: 236 posts
TikTok #covidy: 2.5 million views
YouTube #covidy: less than 100 videos and channels
Google Trends: covidy first appeared during the week of March 15, 2020 around the time of lockdown. The popularity of this search term peaked in July 2021 and then tailed off as the pandemic waned.
Sources:
“Covidy.” Wiktionary. December 2020. URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/covidy.
Dallasjeni. “Covidy.” Urban Dictionary. April 13, 2020. URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/covidy.
DeRay Davis: Hood Hero. “new word: COVIDY.” Twitter. Jan 4, 2022. URL: https://twitter.com/deraydavis/status/1478508318201102352?lang=en.
Dictionnaire Diabolique. “Covidy.” Urban Dictionary. April 15, 2020. URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/covidy.
TLPChoodies. “It’s Too COVIDY Outside – Sweatshirt JH030 funny sweater jumper self isolation lockdown.” Etsy. URL: https://www.etsy.com/listing/940346973/its-too-covidy-outside-sweatshirt-jh030.
Trevett, Claire. “PM’s US trip: Jacinda Ardern’s plane breaks down in Washington, third Covid case among entourage.” New Zealand Herald. 30 May 2022. URL: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/pms-us-trip-jacinda-arderns-plane-breaks-down-in-washington-third-covid-case-among-entourage/M5RGMZFFCGKPIBNXXH7LOOW6IM/.