Definitions for dodo

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dodo do·do

Spelling: [doh-doh]

IPA: /ˈdoʊ doʊ/

Dodo is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in dodo (ddoo).

Definitions for dodo

noun

1. any of several clumsy, flightless, extinct birds of the genera Raphus and Pezophaps, related to pigeons but about the size of a turkey, formerly inhabiting the islands of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodriguez.
2. Slang. a dull-witted, slow-reacting person.
3. a person with old-fashioned, conservative, or outmoded ideas.
4. a thing that is outmoded or obsolete.

Origin of dodo

First recorded in 1620-30, dodo is from the Portuguese word doudo, fool, madman (of uncertain origin); the bird apparently so called from its clumsy appearance

Examples for dodo

I want to enjoy things, dodo, and you can't do that when everybody's on the hate.

Ever the optimist, Crystal believes that languages need not meet the fate of the dodo bird.

Why, Eva, you've really taken such a fancy to dodo, that I shall be jealous.

Republicans are going the way of the dodo in the Golden State.

If I stay with you, I'd try to be good, and not be cross to dodo, and so on.

It's something to do with Dawker, dodo, and that man with him.

Since the Cold War, Kissingerians have largely gone the way of the dodo bird inside the GOP.

As David Quammen described in his elegiac The Song of the dodo, islands are “where species go to die.”

Suppose I'd taken a knock like that, dodo, I'd be glad of friendliness from someone.

dodo; he's too—not pugilistic—the other one with a pug-naceous.