dildo
noun
- sexual device
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪldəʊ/ / /ˈdɪldoʊ/
intj
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”).
- 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; […]”
name
Etymology: Uncertain; see the Wikipedia article for some possible origins.
- A small town on the island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
noun
Etymology: Unclear; 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 (“to 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.”
- A device used for sexual penetration or another sexual activity.
“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 suply their kinde: / A knaue, that moues as light as leaues by winde; / That bendeth not, nor fouldeth anie deale, / But stands as stiff as he were made of steele; / And playes at peacock twixt my leggs right blythe, / And doeth my tickling swage with manie a sighe. / For, by saint Runnion! he'le refresh me well; / And neuer make my tender bellie swell.”
“"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 eager gaze, adjusts the screw, / "And brings their unwashed nudities in view. / "That spot, concealed by two o'er hanging hills, / "Foul sweat and fœtid excrement distils, / "Yet frowsy, there the pipe-clayed soldier sports, / "And bishops hold episcopalian courts. / "'Tis there the Bath empiric's finger guides, / "The oiled bougie ; and as the dildo slides / "Besmeared, to meet last night's descending meal, / "Oft makes the strictures he pretends to heal.”
- Any device or implement.
“Call ghost hunters? Those fuckers will show up with gas powered dildos and burn the woods down.”
- 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.’”
- 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 similar to that of the sahuaro (Camegiea gigantea).”
verb
Etymology: Unclear; 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 (“to open up, spread”), often cited etymologies.
- 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.”