Definitions for dodoes

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dodoes do·do

Spelling: [doh-doh]

IPA: /ˈdoʊ doʊ/

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

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in dodoes (ddeoos).

Definitions for dodoes

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 dodoes

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 dodoes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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