nounWord forms: plural-dos or -does(usually plural) informal
an antic; prank; trick
Word origin
C19: originally US: of uncertain origin
Dido in British English
(ˈdaɪdəʊ)
noun
classical mythology
a princess of Tyre who founded Carthage and became its queen. Virgil tells of her suicide when abandoned by her lover Aeneas
Dido in American English
(ˈdaɪdoʊ)
noun
Roman Mythology
founder and queen of Carthage: in the Aeneid she falls in love with Aeneas and kills herself when he leaves her
Word origin
L < Gr Didō
dido in American English
(ˈdaɪdoʊ)
US
nounWord forms: pluralˈdidoes or ˈdidos
Informal
a mischievous or foolish action
Idioms:
cut (up) didoes
Word origin
< ? Dido, from the story that Dido, on purchasing as much land as might be covered with thehide of a bull, ordered the hide cut into thin strips, with which she surrounded alarge area