Uncertain. Perhaps from obsoletePortuguesedoudo(“fool, simpleton, silly, stupid”) orDutchdodaars. First attested in the 17th century.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈdəʊdəʊ/

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• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈdoʊˌdoʊ/
• Rhymes:-əʊdəʊ
• Hyphenation:do‧do

dodo (pluraldodoesordodos)

1. A large, flightlessbird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to thepigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native toMauritius.
   • 1835,Charles Lyell, chapter XLI, inPrinciples of Geology[…], 4th edition, volume III, London: John Murray, Book III,pages133–134:

     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;[…]

   • 1839,Charles Darwin, chapter IX, inThe Voyage of the Beagle‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (figuratively) A person or organisation which is very old or has veryold-fashioned views or is not willing to change andadapt.
3. (golf) Ahole in one.
   • 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.

• didine
• ratite

Borrowed fromYorubadòdò(“fried plantain”).

dodo (uncountable)

1. (Nigeria)Friedplantain.
   • 2015, Kemi Quinn,African Dishes Made Easy:

     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.”

• dood

Borrowed fromEnglishdodo, of uncertain etymology.

• Hyphenation:do‧do

dodo

1. dodo (Raphus cucullatus)

• IPA^(key):/ˈdoːdoː/

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• Hyphenation:do‧do

Borrowed fromPortuguesedodô.

dodo m (pluraldodo's,diminutivedodootje n)

1. dodo, †Raphus cucullatus

   Synonyms:dodaars,dronte,walgvogel

Borrowed fromFrenchdodo.

dodo m (uncountable)

1. (Belgium,childish)sleep,nighty night

   Synonym:dokes

   Wil jedodo doen? ―Do you want to go to sleep?

• dood

• dido

• IPA^(key):/ˈdodo/
• Rhymes:-odo
• Hyphenation: do‧do

dodo (accusative singulardodon,pluraldodoj,accusative pluraldodojn)

1. dodo

FromEnglishdodo.

• IPA^(key):/ˈdodo/,[ˈdo̞do̞]
• Rhymes:-odo
• Syllabification^(key):do‧do
• Hyphenation^(key):do‧do

dodo

1. dodo(extinct bird of the familyColumbidae)
2. dodo, †Raphus cucullatus(type species of the family)
3. solitaire(two extinct birds of the familyColumbidae, more specificallyRéunion soilitaire, †Raphus solitarius andRodriques solitaire, †Pezophaps solitaria)

• Réunion solitaire has been reclassifiedtaxonomically and is now preferably calledRéunion ibis ( †Threskiornis solitarius).

• (Raphus cucullatus):mauritiuksendodo

• mauritiuksendodo (†Raphus cucullatus, dodo)
• reunionindodo (†Raphus solitarius,Réunion solitaire)
• rodriguezindodo (†Pezophaps solitaria,Rodrigues solitaire)

• IPA^(key):/do.do/

Childish reduplication ofdormir.

dodo m (pluraldodos)

1. (childish)sleep,kip

   Tu veuxfairedodo? ―Do you want to go to sleep?

• métro, boulot, dodo

Borrowed fromPortuguesedoudo orDutchdodaars.

dodo m (pluraldodos)

1. adodo bird

• “dodo”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• IPA^(key):/ˈdɔ.do/
• Rhymes:-ɔdo
• Hyphenation:dò‧do

dodo m (pluraldodi)

1. dodo

• Oddo

FromFrenchdodo.

dodo

1. dodo bird

FromFrenchdodo.

dodo

1. tosleep (childish)

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987.Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Borrowed fromYorubadòdò(“fried plantain”).

• IPA^(key):/dòdò/

dodo

1. Friedplantain.
   • 2021 July 6, “RMD: Richard Mofe-Damijo profile inside six fun facts”, inBBC Pidgin‎^[3]:

     RMD bin love beans anddodo (fried plantain) but e change di diet plan for health reasons.

     RMD loved beans andfried plantain but he changed his diet plan for health reasons.

Substantive form ofdōt(“dead”).

dōdo m

1. dead person

• Middle Dutch:dôde
  • Dutch:dode

• “dōdo”, inOudnederlands Woordenboek,2012

Internationalism; compareEnglishdodo,Frenchdodo,GermanDodo.

• IPA^(key):/ˈdɔ.dɔ/

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• Rhymes:-ɔdɔ
• Syllabification:do‧do

dodo m animal (indeclinable)

1. dodo(Raphus cucullatus)

   Synonym:dront dodo

• dodo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• dodo in PWN's encyclopedia

FromFrenchdodo.

dodo

1. tosleep

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet,Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

• IPA^(key):/ˈdodo/[ˈd̪o.ð̞o]
• Rhymes:-odo
• Syllabification:do‧do

dodo m (pluraldodos)

1. dodo

   Synonym:(obsolete)dronte

• “dodo”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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dodo classV (pluralmadodo classVI)

1. breast(organ)

• ziwa

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈdodoʔ/[ˈd̪oː.d̪oʔ]
• Rhymes:-odoʔ
• Syllabification:do‧do

dodò (Baybayin spellingᜇᜓᜇᜓ)

1. Alternative form ofdede

Probably fromSpanishloro(“parrot”).

• IPA^(key):[doɾ̠o]

dodo

1. theyellow-crowned amazon,Amazona ochrocephala
2. theblue-fronted amazon,Amazona aestiva
3. thetwo-striped forest-pitviper or parrotsnake,Bothrops bilineatus

• 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

Noun sense derives from the ideophone sense.

• IPA^(key):/dò.dò/

dòdò

1. (of an object) beingdeeply orrichlyred

   rẹ̀dòdò ―To turn or become adeep red

   Arawọnrẹ̀dòdòbíiẹ̀jẹ̀.

   Their body turneddark red like blood.

   • 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.

   • 2009, “Gẹnẹsisi 49”, inBíbélì Mímọ́ Yorùbá Òde Òn [Yoruba Contemporary Bible (YCB)], Biblica, Inc:

     12: Ojú rẹ̀ yóò rẹ̀dòdò ju wáìnì lọ.

     12: His eyes will becomeredder than wine.

dòdò

1. Friedplantain

   díndòdò ―to fryplantain

   Dòdòdíndínkòṣòrorárá.

   Fryingplantain isn't hard at all.

   • 1993 November 24, Antonia Yétúndé Fọlárìn Schleicher,Jẹ́ K'Á Sọ Yorùbá [Let's Speak Yoruba], Yale University,→ISBN, page197:

     Oúnjẹ tí mo fẹ́ràn ju nidòdò. Oúnjẹ díndín nidòdò.Dòdò kò ṣòro láti dín rárá.

     My favorite food isfried plantain. It's a fried food.(Fried) Plantain isn't hard to fry at all.

• adíndòdò(“one who fries ripe plantain”)
• onídòdò(“an owner or seller of fried plantain”)
• dòdò Ìkire(“a Yoruba dish”)

• → English:dodo
• → Nigerian Pidgin:dodo

• IPA^(key):/dò.dō/

dòdo

1. Callichilia

• IPA^(key):/dò.dō/

dòdo

1. The poison devil's-pepper,Rauvolfia vomitoria

• IPA^(key):/dò.dō/

dòdo

1. Tabernaemontana pachysiphon

Fromdi(“to become”) +‎odò(“river”).

• IPA^(key):/dō.dò/

dodò

1. tobecome or betransformed into ariver orstream
   • 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:

     Ìrì kérékéré níídodò; ìrì wàràwàrà níí dòjò, kí ọmọdé méje kọ oúnjẹ alẹ́ níí dìjà àgbàlagbà.

     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).

• d'odò(standard orthography whenodò has a qualifier)

• IPA^(key):/dō.dō/

dodo

1. The plantsAdenia lobata andAdenia cissampeloides.

Fromdé(“to arrive at”) +‎odò(“river”).

• IPA^(key):/dó.dò/

dódò

1. toarrive at ariver orstream
   • 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!

• d'ódò(standard orthography whenodò has a qualifier)

• adódò(“the one that arrives at the river”)
• adódòmáwẹ̀(“the one that arrives at the river but does not clean themselves”)

• Awoyale, Yiwola (2008 December 19)Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[12], volumeLDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium,→DOI,→ISBN
• Gbile, Z. O. (1984)Vernacular Names of Nigerian Plants (in Yoruba), Ibadan, Nigeria: Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, pages533-534
• Verger, Pierre Fatumbi (1997)Ewé: The Use of Plants in Yoruba Society, Sāo Paulo: Companhia das Latras, page20