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dodoism

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do⋅do

[doh-doh]
–noun, plural -dos, -does.
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:
1620–30; < Pg doudo, fool, madman (of uncert. orig.); the bird appar. so called from its clumsy appearance


do⋅do⋅ism, noun
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