dodo
/ˈdoʊˌdoʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.88 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
noun
A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.
noun
A hole in one.
Example Sentences
- "In spite of the most active search, during the last century, no information respecting the dodo was obtained, and some authors have gone so far as to pretend that it never existed; […]"
- "Within a very few years after these islands shall have become regularly settled, in all probability this fox will be classed with the dodo, as an animal which has perished from the face of the earth."
- "Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct."
- ""Most of the aces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifth dodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for most aces in a year."
- "Dodo is everybody's favorite! It is a superb snack, a side dish, a breakfast food or a dessert all rolled into one. The best dodo 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."
- "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 the dodos."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: doudo, dodaars
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdoʊˌdoʊ/
- British English: /ˈdəʊdəʊ/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
as dead as a dodo
dead as a dodo
dodo bird
dodo tree
go the way of the dodo
go the way of the dodo bird
little dodo