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dildo

noun
/ˈdɪldəʊ/UK/ˈdɪldoʊ/US

Etymology

Related to other nonsense syllables like dido and diddle(-diddle), which similarly developed sexual senses. Found since at least the 1500s, often in contexts where allusion is being made to the sexual sense (above). Possibly influenced by Middle English dildoun (“darling, pet”), early modern English dildin (“sweetheart”); compare Old Norse dilla (“to lull”), dillindo (“lullaby”).

  1. derived from dildoun

Definitions

  1. A device used for sexual penetration or another sexual activity.

    • Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough.

  2. Any device or implement.

    • Call ghost hunters? Those fuckers will show up with gas powered dildos and burn the woods down.

  3. An idiot

    An idiot; a bore.

    • I take back cars from dildos who don't pay their bills. Cool huh?
    • ‘Thompson?’ Heydon-Bayley had shrieked. ‘But he’s a complete dildo, surely?’ / ‘I like him,’ said Adrian, ‘he’s unusual.’ / ‘Graceless, you mean. Wooden.’
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A columnar cactus of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii).

    2. To penetrate with a dildo or with another object as if it were a dildo.

      • And Venus (one that so much known is) Is Dildo’d by Cauda Draconis.
      • A muscular female prison guard was dildoing a petite brunette with a night stick.

    3. A burden

      A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song.

      • He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes;[…] with such delicate burthens of dildos and fadings,
      • Will you buy a fine dog, with a hole in his head? With a dildo, dildo, dildo; […]
      • oh Vrsula, Vrsula pity me with a dildo, dildo, dillory?

    4. A small town on the island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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Derived

dildo cactus, dildo curls, dildoless, dildolike, dildonics, dildon't, double dildo, double-ended dildo, double penetration dildo, double-sided dildo, drilldo

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dildo. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA