dildoes

Noun

dildo (plural dildos or dildoes)

1. A device used for sexual penetration or another sexual activity.
   • Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough.
   1. An artificial penis.
      • 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...c. 1592–1593 (date written), Thomas Nash[e], “The Choosing of Valentines”, in John S[tephen] Farmer, editor, The Choise of Valentines: Or The Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo […], London: Privately...
2. (derogatory, slang, vulgar) Any device or implement.
   • Call ghost hunters? Those fuckers will show up with gas powered dildos and burn the woods down.2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 43
3. (derogatory, slang) An idiot; a bore.
   • I take back cars from dildos who don't pay their bills. Cool huh?1984, Alex Cox, Repo Man, spoken by Otto Maddox (Emilio Estevez)

   Synonyms:

   addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk, bimbo

4. 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).1910, Forrest Shreve, “The coastal deserts of Jamaica”, in The Plant World: An Illustrated Monthly Journal of Popular Botany, volume 13, pages 129–130

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