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dido

/ˈdaɪdəʊ/

dido noun: a fuss, a row. Also the misspelling of ditto.

Noun (1)

dido (plural didos or didoes)

  1. (regional, slang) A fuss, a row.
    • … she always had strong physical attraction for me … that time I kissed her … one reason I’ve steered clear since … take no chances on emotional didos …1928, Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude, Act Four, page 139
    • I remember Raymond telling me years later how when he lived at home, if his mother heard he had been seen as much as talking to a girl, she would kick up a dido.1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 30
  2. A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
    • Young people," interposed a passing official, "if you keep a cutting didoes, I must talk to you both like a Dutch uncle.1838, Joseph Clay Neal, Charcoal Sketches; Or, Scenes in a Metropolis, page 201
    • Our youngest uncle, Billy, was not old enough to join in their didoes. One of their more flamboyant escapades has become a proud family legend.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 10, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 55

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Dido

Dido

  1. (Greek, Roman) Legendary founder and first queen of Carthage.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Dido

Dido

  1. Synonym of Tsez.
    • The name Tsez derives from the indigenous self-designation cez or cezi, while the alternative Dido is the Georgian designation. The traditional lands of the Tsez are more or less coterminous with the Tsunta district (cuntinskij rajon) in Daghestan, excluding the Bezhta division (bežtinskij...2013 December, Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky, “Tsez”, in University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Maryland, College Park, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2021, page 1
    Synonyms:
    Tsez

Noun (2) capitalized: DIDO

DIDO (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of drive-in drive-out.

Also used as

dido is also the misspelling of ditto.

Synonyms of dido

Forms of dido

pluraldidos
pluraldidoes

Origin of dido

Unknown. The "trick" sense might come from the trick of Dido, queen of Carthage, who, having bought as much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to enclose a spot for a citadel.

Borrowed from Latin Dīdō, from Ancient Greek Διδώ (Didṓ).

Borrowed from Georgian დიდოური (didouri), from დიდი (didi).

Words formed from dido

Phrases with dido

Words that rhyme with dido

Questions about dido

What does dido mean?
Dido means a fuss, a row.
What part of speech is dido?
Dido can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dido?
Dido is pronounced /ˈdaɪdəʊ/.
What is the plural of dido?
The plural of dido is didos.

Words near dido in the dictionary

  1. didnae
  2. didncha
  3. didnt
  4. didntcha
  5. didny
  6. dido
  7. Dido flip
  8. didodecahedra
  9. didodecahedral
  10. didodecahedron
  11. didodecahedrons

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dido (page history and authors); Dido (page history and authors); DIDO (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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