Definitions for dodos

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dodos do·do

Spelling: [doh-doh]

IPA: /ˈdoʊ doʊ/

Dodos is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in dodos (ddoos).

Definitions for dodos

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 dodos

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 dodos

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

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.

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

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

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.”

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.

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