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di⋅do

   [dahy-doh]
–noun, plural -dos, -does. Usually, didos, didoes. Informal.
1. a mischievous trick; prank; antic.
2. a bauble or trifle.
Origin:
1800–10; orig. uncert.
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Di⋅do

   [dahy-doh]
–noun
1. Phoenician, Elissa. Classical Mythology. a queen of Carthage who killed herself when abandoned by Aeneas.
2. a female given name.
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di·do     (dī'dō)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. di·dos or di·does
A mischievous prank or antic; a caper.


[Origin unknown.]

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Di·do     (dī'dō)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Roman Mythology
The founder and queen of Carthage, who fell in love with Aeneas and killed herself when he abandoned her.

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dido 
"prank, caper," 1807, Amer.Eng. slang, perhaps from the queen in the "Aeneid." Usually in phrase to cut didoes.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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dido

noun
(Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas 

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Dido [(deye-doh)]

In Roman mythology, the founder and queen of Carthage in north Africa. She committed suicide in grief over the departure of her lover, the hero Aeneas.

Note: Dido is an image of the unhappy or unrequited lover.

[Chapter:] Mythology and Folklore


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Dido

Di"do\, n.; pl. Didos. A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.

To cut a dido, to play a trick; to cut a caper; -- perhaps so called from the trick of Dido, who having bought so much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a citadel.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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