In spite of the most active search, during the last century, no information respecting thedodo was obtained, and some authors have gone so far as to pretend that it never existed;[…]
Within a very few years after these islands shall have become regularly settled, in all probability this fox will be classed with thedodo, 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”, inThe Guardian[2]:
Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system ofdodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through adodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.
(figuratively) A person or organisation which is very old or has veryold-fashioned views or is not willing to change andadapt.
2012, Arv Olson,Backspin: 120 Years of Golf in British Columbia, page253:
"Most of the aces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifthdodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for most aces in a year.
Dodo is everybody's favorite! It is a superb snack, a side dish, a breakfast food or a dessert all rolled into one. The bestdodo 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 thedodos.
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.”
Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “dodo”, inYe’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, pages120, 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, page91: “dodo”
Hall, Katherine Lee (1988)The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page388: “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, published2021
1997, Sachnine Michika, “dòdò”, inDictionnaire usuel yorùbá-français suivi d'un index français-yorùbá (overall work in French), Ibadan, Nigeria: Éditions Karthala and IFRA-Ibadan,→ISBN, page220:
Àwọn Yorùbá kì í wọ aṣọ tó bá rẹ̀dòdò.
The Yoruba do not wearbright red clothes.
2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, “dòdò”, inGlobal Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0[7], numberLDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium,→DOI,→ISBN:
Ó rẹ̀dòdò bí òòrùn alẹ́.
It turneddeep red like the late evening sun.
2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, “dòdò”, inGlobal Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0[8], numberLDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium,→DOI,→ISBN:
Ó já sí pápá, ó rẹ̀dòdò, ó so igba àdó mọ́rí.
It bursts into the open field, it comes out indeep red, it ties two hundred tiny gourds on its head (riddle = imí/ìgbẹ́ (feces))
2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting A. Babalola, “dòdò”, inOrin Ọdẹ fún Àṣeyẹ[9], numberLDC2008L03, 1973, Ibadan: Macmillan Nigeria Publishers Ltd., page 26, quoted inGlobal Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium,→DOI,→ISBN:
Ìlẹ̀padòdò kì í jẹ́ kí òkú bẹ̀nìyàn wò.
Thedeep red laterite from fresh grave does not allow the dead to come and visit his relations.
2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting I. O. Delano, “dodò”, inOrin Ọdẹ fún Àṣeyẹ[10], numberLDC2008L03, 1966, Ibadan: University Press Limited, page 24, quoted inGlobal Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium,→DOI,→ISBN:
Just as it is the trickles of dew thatbecome 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).
2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, “dódò”, inGlobal Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0[11], numberLDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium,→DOI,→ISBN:
Modódò mo kàndí/tìró, mi ò rọ́lọ́kọ̀ tí yóò tù mí gàlé, omi ńlá ti gbé ẹja lọ!
Igot 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!
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