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
- adv. 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.
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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“Reply to this comment » muso scot (dido singer) says:”
“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”
The Delicate Storm
“Monday, Oct. 06, 2003 @ 11: 56 mood: kinda sad current music: white flag, dido current - reminsce - envision - archive - guestbook - contact links soccernet the onion break. com newgrounds wikipedia somethingawful talkingcock maddox my ebaystore”
“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.”
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