dodo

Uncertain. Perhaps from obsolete Portuguese doudo (“fool, simpleton, silly, stupid”) or Dutch dodaars. First attested in the 17th century.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊdəʊ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊˌdoʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊdəʊ
• Hyphenation: do‧do

dodo (plural dodoes or dodos)

1. A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
   • 1835, Charles Lyell, chapter XLI, in Principles of Geology […] , 4th edition, volume III, London: John Murray, Book III, pages 133–134:

     In spite of the most active search, during the last century, no information respecting the dodo was obtained, and some authors have gone so far as to pretend that it never existed; […]

   • 1839, Charles Darwin, chapter IX, in The Voyage of the Beagle‎^[1]:

     Within a very few years after these islands shall have become regularly settled, in all probability this fox will be classed with the dodo, as an animal which has perished from the face of the earth.

   • 2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, “Finding zombies, ghosts and Elvis in the fossil record”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.

2. (figuratively) A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.
3. (golf) A hole in one.
   • 2012, Arv Olson, Backspin: 120 Years of Golf in British Columbia, page 253:

     "Most of the aces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifth dodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for most aces in a year.

• didine
• ratite

Borrowed from Yoruba dòdò (“fried plantain”).

dodo (uncountable)

1. (Nigeria) Fried plantain.
   • 2015, Kemi Quinn, African Dishes Made Easy:

     Dodo is everybody's favorite! It is a superb snack, a side dish, a breakfast food or a dessert all rolled into one. The best dodo is made from soft (almost over ripe) plantain which is cut in 1/2 inch thick diagonal slices and fried to a crispy golden brown.

   • 2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen: A Novel:

     Mother had banned it a year or so earlier after Obembe and I stole pieces from Mother's cooler, and lied that we'd seen rats eating the dodos.

   • 2018, Remmi Smith, The Healthy Teen Cookbook: Around the World In 80 Fantastic Recipes:

     One popular Nigerian dish is fried plantain, which is called “dodo.”

• dood

Borrowed from English dodo, of uncertain etymology.

• Hyphenation: do‧do

dodo

1. dodo (Raphus cucullatus)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoːdoː/

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• Hyphenation: do‧do

Borrowed from Portuguese dodô.

dodo m (plural dodo's, diminutive dodootje n)

1. dodo, †Raphus cucullatus

   Synonyms: dodaars, dronte, walgvogel

Borrowed from French dodo.

dodo m (uncountable)

1. (Belgium, childish) sleep, nighty night

   Synonym: dokes

   Wil je dodo doen? ― Do you want to go to sleep?

• dood

• dido

dodo (accusative singular dodon, plural dodoj, accusative plural dodojn)

1. dodo

From English dodo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdodo/, [ˈdo̞do̞]
• Rhymes: -odo
• Hyphenation^(key): do‧do

dodo

1. dodo (extinct bird of the family Columbidae)
2. dodo, †Raphus cucullatus (type species of the family)
3. solitaire (two extinct birds of the family Columbidae, more specifically Réunion soilitaire, †Raphus solitarius and Rodriques solitaire, †Pezophaps solitaria)

• Réunion solitaire has been reclassified taxonomically and is now preferably called Réunion ibis ( †Threskiornis solitarius).

• (Raphus cucullatus): mauritiuksendodo

• mauritiuksendodo (†Raphus cucullatus, dodo)
• reunionindodo (†Raphus solitarius, Réunion solitaire)
• rodriguezindodo (†Pezophaps solitaria, Rodrigues solitaire)

• IPA^(key): /do.do/

Childish reduplication of dormir.

dodo m (plural dodos)

1. (childish) sleep, kip

   Tu veux faire dodo? ― Do you want to go to sleep?

• métro, boulot, dodo

Borrowed from Portuguese doudo or Dutch dodaars.

dodo m (plural dodos)

1. a dodo bird

• “dodo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɔdo
• Hyphenation: dò‧do

dodo m (plural dodi)

1. dodo

• Oddo

From French dodo.

dodo

1. dodo bird

From French dodo.

dodo

1. to sleep (childish)

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Borrowed from Yoruba dòdò (“fried plantain”).

• IPA^(key): /dòdò/

dodo

1. Fried plantain.
   • 2021 July 6, “RMD: Richard Mofe-Damijo profile inside six fun facts”, in BBC Pidgin‎^[3]:

     RMD bin love beans and dodo (fried plantain) but e change di diet plan for health reasons.

     RMD loved beans and fried plantain but he changed his diet plan for health reasons.

Substantive form of dōt (“dead”).

dōdo m

1. dead person

• Middle Dutch: dôde
  • Dutch: dode

• “dōdo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From French dodo.

dodo

1. to sleep

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

• IPA^(key): /ˈdodo/ [ˈd̪o.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -odo
• Syllabification: do‧do

dodo m (plural dodos)

1. dodo

   Synonym: (obsolete) dronte

• “dodo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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dodo (ma class, plural madodo)

1. breast (organ)

• ziwa

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdodoʔ/ [ˈd̪oː.d̪oʔ]
• Rhymes: -odoʔ
• Syllabification: do‧do

dodò (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜇᜓ)

1. Alternative form of dede

Variant orthographies

ALIV	dodo
Brazilian standard	dodo
New Tribes	dodo

Probably from Spanish loro (“parrot”).

• IPA^(key): [doɾ̠o]

dodo

1. the yellow-crowned amazon, Amazona ochrocephala
2. the blue-fronted amazon, Amazona aestiva
3. the two-striped forest-pitviper or parrotsnake, Bothrops bilineatus

• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “dodo”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎^[4] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, pages 120, 126
• Ye’kwana nonoodö: yawaadeejudinnha wenhä = Território Ye’kwana: a vida em Auaris‎^[5] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Portuguese), São Paulo: ISA – Instituto Socioambiental, 2017, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 91: “dodo”
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 388: “dodo - parrot (>Sp)”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “dodo”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[6], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

Noun sense derives from the ideophone sense.

• IPA^(key): /dò.dò/

dòdò

1. (of an object) being deeply or richly red

   rẹ̀ dòdò ― To turn or become a deep red

   Ara wọn rẹ̀ dòdò bíi ẹ̀jẹ̀.

   Their body turned dark red like blood.

   • 1997, Sachnine Michika, “dòdò”, in Dictionnaire usuel yorùbá-français suivi d'un index français-yorùbá (overall work in French), Ibadan, Nigeria: Éditions Karthala and IFRA-Ibadan, →ISBN, page 220:

     Àwọn Yorùbá kì í wọ aṣọ tó bá rẹ̀ dòdò.

     The Yoruba do not wear bright red clothes.

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, “dòdò”, in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[7], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ó rẹ̀ dòdò bí òòrùn alẹ́.

     It turned deep red like the late evening sun.

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, “dòdò”, in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[8], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ó já sí pápá, ó rẹ̀ dòdò, ó so igba àdó mọ́rí.

     It bursts into the open field, it comes out in deep red, it ties two hundred tiny gourds on its head (riddle = imí/ìgbẹ́ (feces))

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting A. Babalola, “dòdò”, in Orin Ọdẹ fún Àṣeyẹ‎^[9], number LDC2008L03, 1973, Ibadan: Macmillan Nigeria Publishers Ltd., page 26, quoted in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ìlẹ̀pa dòdò kì í jẹ́ kí òkú bẹ̀nìyàn wò.

     The deep red laterite from fresh grave does not allow the dead to come and visit his relations.

   • 2009, “Gẹnẹsisi 49”, in Bíbélì Mímọ́ Yorùbá Òde Òn [Yoruba Contemporary Bible (YCB)], Biblica, Inc:

     12: Ojú rẹ̀ yóò rẹ̀ dòdò ju wáìnì lọ.

     12: His eyes will become redder than wine.

dòdò

1. Fried plantain

   dín dòdò ― to fry plantain

   Dòdò díndín kò ṣòro rárá.

   Frying plantain isn't hard at all.

   • 1993 November 24, Antonia Yétúndé Fọlárìn Schleicher, Jẹ́ K'Á Sọ Yorùbá [Let's Speak Yoruba], Yale University, →ISBN, page 197:

     Oúnjẹ tí mo fẹ́ràn ju ni dòdò. Oúnjẹ díndín ni dòdò. Dòdò kò ṣòro láti dín rárá.

     My favorite food is fried plantain. It's a fried food. (Fried) Plantain isn't hard to fry at all.

• adíndòdò (“one who fries ripe plantain”)
• onídòdò (“an owner or seller of fried plantain”)
• dòdò Ìkire (“a Yoruba dish”)

• → English: dodo
• → Nigerian Pidgin: dodo

• IPA^(key): /dò.dō/

dòdo

1. Callichilia

• IPA^(key): /dò.dō/

dòdo

1. The poison devil's-pepper, Rauvolfia vomitoria

• IPA^(key): /dò.dō/

dòdo

1. Tabernaemontana pachysiphon

From di (“to become”) +‎ odò (“river”).

• IPA^(key): /dō.dò/

dodò

1. to become or be transformed into a river or stream
   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting I. O. Delano, “dodò”, in Orin Ọdẹ fún Àṣeyẹ‎^[10], number LDC2008L03, 1966, Ibadan: University Press Limited, page 24, quoted in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ìrì kérékéré níí dodò; ìrì wàràwàrà níí dòjò, kí ọmọdé méje kọ oúnjẹ alẹ́ níí dìjà àgbàlagbà.

     Just as it is the trickles of dew that become a stream, and it is the falling of heavy dews that form rains, so for seven siblings to refuse their dinner would provoke a fight between adults (proverb on the danger of minor events).

• d'odò (standard orthography when odò has a qualifier)

• IPA^(key): /dō.dō/

dodo

1. The plants Adenia lobata and Adenia cissampeloides.

From dé (“to arrive at”) +‎ odò (“river”).

• IPA^(key): /dó.dò/

dódò

1. to arrive at a river or stream
   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, “dódò”, in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[11], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Mo dódò mo kàndí/tìró, mi ò rọ́lọ́kọ̀ tí yóò tù mí gàlé, omi ńlá ti gbé ẹja lọ!

     I got to the river and stood back; I did not find a canoe man to pilot me across; the bigger river has swept off the fish!

• d'ódò (standard orthography when odò has a qualifier)

• adódò (“the one that arrives at the river”)
• adódòmáwẹ̀ (“the one that arrives at the river but does not clean themselves”)

• Awoyale, Yiwola (2008 December 19) Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[12], volume LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN
• Gbile, Z. O. (1984) Vernacular Names of Nigerian Plants (in Yoruba), Ibadan, Nigeria: Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, pages 533-534
• Verger, Pierre Fatumbi (1997) Ewé: The Use of Plants in Yoruba Society, Sāo Paulo: Companhia das Latras, page 20