dodo

dodo
   The dodo was a bird which was once to be found in Mauritius, but it has long been extinct. It had a massive clumsy body and small wings that were useless for flight. Its ridiculous appearance and movements caused the Portuguese to name it dondo, ‘fool’. It is almost fitting, then, that the English form of the word, ‘dodo’, lives on as a slang term for a silly person. ‘You dumb dodo’ is spoken by a man and addressed to a woman in Last Tango in Paris, by Robert Alley. In the idiosyncratic spelling of a young black American prostitute it emerges as ‘you dum doe doe’ in One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, by Robert Gover.

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  • dodo — DODO. sub. masc. Mot du langage familier, dont on se sert en parlant aux enfans, et qui n est d usage que dans ces phrases, Faire dodo, pour dire, Dormir; Aller à dodo, pour dire, Aller dormir, aller se coucher …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • dodô — |ô| s. m. [Ornitologia] Ave da família dos rafídeos, de grande porte e asas curtas que não lhe permitiam voar, endêmica de algumas ilhas do oceano Índico e extinta devido à sua caça indiscriminada no século XVII. = DODÓ, DRONTE   ‣ Etimologia:… …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • dodo — dȍdo m DEFINICIJA etnol. reg. hip. stric u Dalmaciji i Hercegovini ONOMASTIKA Dódo m. os. ime (potvrđeno u hrv. spomenicima u 11. st.), zast.: Dȍdomīr, Dodòvit pr.: Dòdaj (21, Bjelovar, Poreč, Zadar), Dòder (Virovitica, Osijek, Varaždin), Dòdeš,… …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • dodo — ► NOUN (pl. dodos or dodoes) ▪ a large extinct flightless bird found on Mauritius until the end of the 17th century. ● as dead as a dodo Cf. ↑as dead as a dodo ORIGIN Portuguese doudo simpleton (because the birds were tame and easy to catch) …   English terms dictionary

  • Dodo — Do do, n.; pl. {Dodoes}. [Said to be fr. Pg. doudo silly, foolish (cf. {Booby}); this is fr. Prov. E. dold, the same word as E. dolt.] (Zo[ o]l.) A large, extinct bird ({Didus ineptus}), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Dodo [1] — Dodo, einer der zahlreichen Mündungsarme des Nigerstromes in Afrika …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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