dildo

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪldəʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈdɪɫdəʊ]
• (US) IPA^(key): [ˈdɪɫdoʊ]
• Rhymes: -ɪldəʊ

Unclear; possibly an alteration of Italian diletto (“delight”) or English diddle. Compare the spelling dil doul, found in e.g. The Maids Complaint for want of a Dil Doul, a song in the library of Samuel Pepys.

An assortment of dildos.

A woman with a dildo on an Ancient Greek vase from 490 BCE.

dildo (plural dildos or dildoes)

1. An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use.
2. (derogatory) An idiot, a bore.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 22:

     ‘Thompson?’ Heydon-Bayley had shrieked. ‘But he's a complete dildo, surely?’
     ‘I like him,’ said Adrian. ‘He's unusual.’
     ‘Graceless, you mean. Wooden.’

3. (botany) A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii).
   • 1910, Forrest Shreve, “The coastal deserts of Jamaica”, in The Plant World: An Illustrated Monthly Journal of Popular Botany, volume 13, pages 129-130:

     The commonest and most conspicuous of the cacti is the "dildoe" (Cereus Swartzii), a columnar form growing to as much as 20 feet in height, a plant the gross physiology of which is probably very similar to that of the sahuaro (Camegiea gigantea).

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dildo (third-person singular simple present dildoes, present participle dildoing, simple past and past participle dildoed)

1. (transitive) To penetrate with a dildo or with another object as if it were a dildo.
   • 1681, Scudamore, Homer A la Mode, 2, 48:

     Venus […] is Dildo'd by Cauda Draconis.

   • 2010, Reggie Chesterfield, Goody Goes Bad!, page 40:

     A muscular female prison guard was dildoing a petite brunette with a night stick.

Related to other nonsense syllables like diddle(-diddle).

dildo

1. (obsolete) A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song.
   • c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

     , Act IV, scene iv:

     He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes; […] with such delicate burthens of dildos and fadings,

   • c. 1600, Thomas Morley, Will You Buy a Fine Dog?:

     Will you buy a fine dog, with a hole in his head?

     With a dildo, dildo, dildo; […]

   • c. 1600-1636, William Sampson, The Vow Breaker:

     oh Vrsula, Vrsula pity me with a dildo, dildo, dillory?

• IPA^(key): /ˈdildo/, [ˈdildo̞]
• Hyphenation: dil‧do

dildo

1. dildo

Borrowed from English dildo.

dildo m (definite singular dildoen, indefinite plural dildoer, definite plural dildoene)

1. dildo

Borrowed from English dildo.

dildo m (definite singular dildoen, indefinite plural dildoar, definite plural dildoane)

1. dildo

Borrowed from English dildo.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdildu/

dildo m (plural dildos)

1. dildo

Borrowed from English dildo.

dildo n (plural dildouri)

1. dildo

dildo m (plural dildos)

1. dildo

Borrowed from English dildo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdildo]
• Hyphenation: dil‧do

dildo (definite accusative dildoyu, plural dildolar)

1. dildo