dildo

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪldəʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈdɪɫdəʊ]

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• (US) IPA^(key): [ˈdɪɫdoʊ]
• Rhymes: -ɪldəʊ

Unclear; possibly an alteration of English diddle; compare the use of dildo², like diddle, as an expressive nonsense syllable in often sexual songs. 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. Unlikely to be related to Italian diletto (“delight”) or Latin dīlātō (“I open up, spread”), often cited etymologies.[1]

An assortment of dildos.

A woman with a dildo on an Ancient Greek vase from 490 BCE.

dildo (plural dildos or dildoes)

1. An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use.
2. (derogatory) An idiot, a bore.
   • 1984, Alex Cox, Repo Man, spoken by Otto Maddox (Emilio Estevez):

     I take back cars from dildos who don't pay their bills. Cool huh?

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 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.’

3. (derogatory, vulgar, slang) Any device or implement.
   • 2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 43:

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

4. A columnar cactus 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).

• double dildo

• → Danish: dildo
• → Dutch: dildo
• → Finnish: dildo
• → German: Dildo
• → Hindi: डिल्डो (ḍilḍo)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: dildo
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: dildo
• → Polish: dildo
• → Portuguese: dildo
• → Romanian: dildo
• → Spanish: dildo
• → Turkish: dildo

• fleshlight
• vibrator

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

1. (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.

   • 2010, Reggie Chesterfield, Goody Goes Bad!, page 40:

     A muscular female prison guard was dildoing a petite brunette with a night stick.

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).[2] Possibly influenced by Middle English dildoun (“darling, pet”), early modern English dildin (“sweetheart”); compare Old Norse dilla (“to lull”), dillindo (“lullaby”).[1]

• dildoides, dildidoes pl (17th c.)

dildo

1. (obsolete) A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     , Act IV, scene iv:

     He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes; […] with such delicate burthens of dildos and fadings,

   • c. 1600, Thomas Morley, Will You Buy a Fine Dog?:

     Will you buy a fine dog, with a hole in his head?

     With a dildo, dildo, dildo; […]

   • c. 1600-1636, William Sampson, The Vow Breaker:

     oh Vrsula, Vrsula pity me with a dildo, dildo, dillory?

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɪldo]

dildo n

1. dildo

   Synonym: robertek

• dildo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• dildo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from English dildo.

dildo m (definite singular dildoen, indefinite plural dildoer, definite plural dildoerne)

1. dildo

Borrowed from English dildo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪl.doː/

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• Hyphenation: dil‧do

dildo m (plural dildo's)

1. dildo

• kunstpenis

• voorbinddildo

From English dildo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdildo/, [ˈdildo̞]
• Rhymes: -ildo
• Syllabification^(key): dil‧do

dildo

1. dildo

Borrowed from English dildo.

dildo m (definite singular dildoen, indefinite plural dildoer, definite plural dildoene)

1. dildo

Borrowed from English dildo.

dildo m (definite singular dildoen, indefinite plural dildoar, definite plural dildoane)

1. dildo

Borrowed from English dildo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdil.dɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ildɔ
• Syllabification: dil‧do

dildo n

1. dildo

• dildo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dildo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English dildo.

dildo m (plural dildos)

1. dildo

Borrowed from English dildo.

dildo n (plural dildouri)

1. dildo

• IPA^(key): /ˈdildo/ [ˈd̪il̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -ildo
• Syllabification: dil‧do

dildo m (plural dildos)

1. dildo

dildo c

1. dildo

   Synonym: löskuk

• massagestav (“vibrator”)

• dildo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• dildo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Borrowed from English dildo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdildo]
• Hyphenation: dil‧do

dildo (definite accusative dildoyu, plural dildolar)

1. dildo