Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mischievous prank or antic; a caper.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An old story.
- n. A caper; a prank; a trick.
Wiktionary
- n. slang, regional A fuss, a row.
- n. A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
- adv. US common misspelling of ditto.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. The "trick" sense might come from the trick of Dido, queen of Carthage, who, having bought as much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to enclose a spot for a citadel. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Halse has been running round with him, on the sly, for a month, and they've got some kind of a 'dido' planned out.”
“Australia, dido people trying to get silver certificates converted to bullion have faced excusses and delivery delays (see previous post)”
““How the hell did someone get pics out of North Korea without getting shot?” dido”
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“September 22nd, 2006 at 6:58 am dido, well past aug 13th.”
“The thick, curly hair and a beard gave him the look of a B-movie ban dido”
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“MCEDWARDS: Well, and dido, as you say for our next example, which is Polio.”
“Perhaps you don't think she means it when she goes to every 'tea' and 'recital' and 'at home' and crazy dido from here to Beersheba and back.”
“Three times that night she woke in the bed with her curl-papers crackling for very fright; and the fourth time 'twas at the sound of a real dido below stairs.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dido’.
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Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
snit, hobo, minx, kiln, loll, pelf, yegg, ugly, bumf, brio, biro, haha and 92 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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froseph's list
saritorial, pogrom, synecdoche, metonymy, tonsorial, prophylactic, ozymandias, nepenthe, tonsorial, tranche, allodium, allodial and 156 more...
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Just kidding
Words that mean joke
chouse, dido, antic, roguery, ropery, apery, daft, jape, shavie, razz, quipster, morology
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You Must Be Joking
Words for pranks, tricks, jokes, and capers.
dido, jest, frolic, lark, monkeyshines, firkery, riggite, rig, shavie, steracle, bourd, cod and 38 more...
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Hannibal
punic, ba'al, toffit, molech, cognate, moabite, pathogen, apologist, legate, shoals, immolate, emnity and 41 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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Words from freerice.com
foolscap, tabor, pilus, carom, pomelo, pluton, bulbul, dhole, duenna, poniard, breviary, bollix and 88 more...
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