dildo

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈdɪldəʊ/
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/ˈdɪldəʊ/ · /ˈdɪldoʊ/

Definition of dildo

8 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A device used for sexual penetration or another sexual activity.
    “Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough.”
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noun

  1. A device used for sexual penetration or another sexual activity.
    “Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough.”
  2. A device used for sexual penetration or another sexual activity.
    “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?” The young poster had responded to the presence of newly washed sex toys in a shared space with a disgusted hostility and the dildo-owning flatmate complained the poster should have requested the removal more politely.”
  3. (derogatory, slang, vulgar)Any device or implement.
    “Call ghost hunters? Those fuckers will show up with gas powered dildos and burn the woods down.”
  4. (derogatory, slang)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.’”
  5. 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

  1. (transitive)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.”

intj

  1. (obsolete)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?”

name

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

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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…

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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.

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