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発音

• IPA: /ˈdaɪdəʊ/
• 韻: -aɪdəʊ

名詞

dido (plural didos or didoes)

1. (slang, regional) A fuss, a row.
   • 1928, Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude, Act Four, page 139:

     … she always had strong physical attraction for me … that time I kissed her … one reason I’ve steered clear since … take no chances on emotional didos …

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 30:

     I remember Raymond telling me years later how when he lived at home, if his mother heard he had been seen as much as talking to a girl, she would kick up a dido.

2. A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
   • 1838, Joseph Clay Neal, Charcoal Sketches; Or, Scenes in a Metropolis, page 201:

     Young people," interposed a passing official, "if you keep a cutting didoes, I must talk to you both like a Dutch uncle.

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 10, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 55:

     Our youngest uncle, Billy, was not old enough to join in their didoes. One of their more flamboyant escapades has become a proud family legend.

語源 2

副詞

dido

1. (US) Misspelling of ditto. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

アナグラム

• doid

語源

From dis- +‎ dō (“to give”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈdiː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈdiː.do]

動詞

dīdō (present infinitive dīdere, perfect active dīdidī, supine dīditum); third conjugation

1. to give out, spread abroad, disseminate, distribute, scatter

Conjugation

派生語

• dīditus
• dīdimus

参照

• “dido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dido”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “dido”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dido”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray