/ˈdɪldəʊ/, /ˈdɪldoʊ/
OriginUnclear; possibly an alteration of English diddle. Compare the use as an expressive nonsense syllable in often sexual songs and 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. Unlikely to be related to Italian diletto (“delight”) or Latin dīlātō (“I open up, spread”), often cited etymologies.
- A device used for sexual penetration or another sexual activity.
“Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough.”
- An artificial penis.
“Adieu! faint-hearted instrument of lust;
That falselie hath betrayde our equale trust.
Hence-forth no more will I implore thine ayde,
Or thee, or man of cowardize upbrayde.
My little dilldo shall ”
“"There, as my lord, with achromatic glass,
"O'erlooks St. James's Park, and on the grass,
"Beneath his mansion's half-closed window spies
"Two crouching urchins' gross obscenities,
"He turns his e”
“A few weeks ago, a post went viral in which the author seeks a public verdict on the question “AITA for asking my roommates to remove their dildos from the bathroom mirror in a way that was not kind?””
- A columnar cactus of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii).
“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 simil”
- transitiveTo 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.”
- obsoleteA 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?”
- A small town on the island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Formsdildos(plural) · dildoes(plural) · dildoes(present, singular, third-person) · dildoing(participle, present) · dildoed(participle, past) · dildoed(past) · dildoides(alternative) · dildidoes(alternative)