dildo
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Unclear; possibly an alteration of English diddle; compare the use of dildo2, like diddle, as an expressive nonsense syllable in often sexual songs. Compare 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]
Noun
dildo (plural dildos or dildoes)
- An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use.
- 1592/3, Thomas Nashe, The Choise of Valentines (Poetry), published 1899, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 27, 2006:
- 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. (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.
- (derogatory) An idiot, a bore.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 22:
- ‘Thompson?’ Heydon-Bayley had shrieked. ‘But he's a complete dildo, surely?’¶ ‘I like him,’ said Adrian. ‘He's unusual.’¶ ‘Graceless, you mean. Wooden.’
- (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.
- 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).
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
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Verb
dildo (third-person singular simple present dildoes, present participle dildoing, simple past and past participle dildoed)
- (transitive) To penetrate with a dildo or with another object as if it were a dildo.
- 2010, Reggie Chesterfield, Goody Goes Bad!, page 40:
- A muscular female prison guard was dildoing a petite brunette with a night stick.
Etymology 2
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]
Alternative forms
- dildoides, dildidoes pl (17th c.)
Interjection
dildo
- (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?
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “dildo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Gordon Williams, Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdɪldo]
Declension
Danish
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɪl.doː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: dil‧do
Synonyms
Derived terms
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdildo/, [ˈdildo̞]
- Rhymes: -ildo
- Syllabification(key): dil‧do
Declension
Inflection of dildo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | dildo | dildot | ||
genitive | dildon | dildojen | ||
partitive | dildoa | dildoja | ||
illative | dildoon | dildoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | dildo | dildot | ||
accusative | nom. | dildo | dildot | |
gen. | dildon | |||
genitive | dildon | dildojen | ||
partitive | dildoa | dildoja | ||
inessive | dildossa | dildoissa | ||
elative | dildosta | dildoista | ||
illative | dildoon | dildoihin | ||
adessive | dildolla | dildoilla | ||
ablative | dildolta | dildoilta | ||
allative | dildolle | dildoille | ||
essive | dildona | dildoina | ||
translative | dildoksi | dildoiksi | ||
abessive | dildotta | dildoitta | ||
instructive | — | dildoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading
- “dildo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdil.dɔ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ildɔ
- Syllabification: dil‧do
Declension
Portuguese
Romanian
Noun
dildo n (plural dildouri)
- dildo
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdildo/ [ˈd̪il̪.d̪o]
- Rhymes: -ildo
- Syllabification: dil‧do
Swedish
Declension
Declension of dildo | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | dildo | dildon | dildos, dildoar | dildoarna |
Genitive | dildos | dildons | dildos, dildoars | dildoarnas |
See also
- massagestav (“vibrator”)
- sexleksak (“sex toy”)
References
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdildo]
- Hyphenation: dil‧do
Declension
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Nominative | dildo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | dildoyu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | dildo | dildolar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | dildoyu | dildoları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | dildoya | dildolara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | dildoda | dildolarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | dildodan | dildolardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | dildonun | dildoların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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