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Pronunciation Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

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 .

Noun Edit

dildo (plural dildos or dildoes)

An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use. ( 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.’ ( 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).

Descendants Edit

→ Danish: dildo

Danish: → Dutch: dildo

Dutch: → Finnish: dildo

Finnish: → German: Dildo

German: → Hindi: डिल्डो ( ḍilḍo )

Hindi: → Norwegian Bokmål: dildo

Norwegian Bokmål: → Norwegian Nynorsk: dildo

Norwegian Nynorsk: → Polish: dildo

Polish: → Portuguese: dildo

Portuguese: → Romanian: dildo

Romanian: → Spanish: dildo

Spanish: → Turkish: dildo

See also Edit

Translations Edit

Verb Edit

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

( 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 .

, Scudamore, , 48: 2010, Reggie Chesterfield, Goody Goes Bad!, page 40: A muscular female prison guard was dildoing a petite brunette with a night stick.

Etymology 2 Edit

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

Interjection Edit

dildo