dildo

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪldəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪldoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪldəʊ
• Hyphenation: dil‧do

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 (“I open up, spread”), often cited etymologies.^[1]

dildo (plural dildos or dildoes)

2. A device used for sexual penetration or another sexual activity.
   2. An artificial penis.
      • 1592/3, Thomas Nashe, The Choise of Valentines‎^[1] (Poetry), published 1899, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 February 2006‎^[2]:

        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 fouldeth anie deale,
        But stands as stiff as he were made of steele;
        And playes at peacock twixt my leggs right blythe,
        And doeth my tickling swage with manie a sighe.
        For, by saint Runnion! he'le refresh me well;
        And neuer make my tender bellie swell.

      • 1866, “Don Leon”, in Don Leon ; A Poem by the Late Lord Byron, Author of Childe Harold, Don Juan, &c., &c. and forming part of the private journal of His Lordship, supposed to have been entirely destoyed by Thos. Moore. To which is added Leon to Annabella; An epistle from Lord Byron to Lady Byron.‎^[3] (Poetry), →OCLC, pages 44, 51–52:

        "There, as my lord, with achromatic glass,
        "O'erlooks St. James's Park, and on the grass,
        "Beneath his mansion's half-closed window spies
        "Two crouching urchins' gross obscenities,
        "He turns his eager gaze, adjusts the screw,
        "And brings their unwashed nudities in view.
        "That spot, concealed by two o'er hanging hills,
        "Foul sweat and fœtid excrement distils,
        "Yet frowsy, there the pipe-clayed soldier sports,
        "And bishops hold episcopalian courts.
        "'Tis there the Bath empiric's finger guides,
        "The oiled bougie ; and as the dildo slides
        "Besmeared, to meet last night's descending meal,
        "Oft makes the strictures he pretends to heal.

        Whoever has visited Bath must have heard of a surgeon, by the name of Hicks, who pretends to cure strictures in the rectum by the insertion of bougies of enormous dimensions up the anus in male and female patients. The morning meetings of ten or a dozen persons of both sexes, all waiting to undergo the same mode of cure (for he never fails to discover stricture or tendency to stricture, in all those persons who consult him), must be ludicrous and somewhat obscene. Why does he not follow the plan of Enothea, a harlot spoken of by Petronius? "Profert Enothea scorteum fascinum, quod, ut oleo et minuto pipere atque urticæ trito circumdedit semine, paulatim cœpit insere ano meo." It may not be amiss to observe that the fascinum (Gallice godmiché, Anglice dildo) was a substitute for the human penis, known to the ancients as well as to the moderns.

4. (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.

5. (derogatory) An idiot; a bore.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot

   • 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 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 15:

     ‘Thompson?’ Heydon-Bayley had shrieked. ‘But he’s a complete dildo, surely?’
     ‘I like him,’ said Adrian, ‘he’s unusual.’
     ‘Graceless, you mean. Wooden.’

6. 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).

• → Bengali: ডিলডো (ḍiloḍō), ডিল্ডো (ḍilḍō)
• → Czech: dildo
• → Danish: dildo
• → Dutch: dildo
• → Finnish: dildo
• → French: dildo
• → German: Dildo
• → Hindi: डिल्डो (ḍilḍo)
• → Japanese: ディルド (dirudo)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: dildo
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: dildo
• → Polish: dildo
• → Portuguese: dildo
• → Romanian: dildo
• → Serbo-Croatian: 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, Homer Alamode, the Second Part in English Burlesque, or, Mock Poem upon the Ninth Book of the Iliads‎^[4], page 48:

     And Venus (one that so much known is)
     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, [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 (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “dildo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 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
• Hyphenation^(key): dil‧do

dildo

1. dildo

• “dildo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

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/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ildɔ
• Syllabification: dil‧do

dildo n

1. dildo (artificial phallus)

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

Unadapted borrowing from English dildo.

• Hyphenation: dil‧do

dildo m (plural dildos)

1. dildo

   Synonym: (Brazil) consolo

Borrowed from English dildo.

dildo n (plural dildouri)

1. dildo

Borrowed from English dildo.

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

dildo m (plural dildos)

1. dildo

   Synonym: consolador

• “dildo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from English dildo.

dildo c

1. dildo

   Synonym: löskuk

• massagestav (“vibrator”)
• sexleksak (“sex toy”)

• 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