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dildo

intj · name · noun · verb · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɪldəʊ/
  • General-American: /ˈdɪldoʊ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɪldəʊ
  • CMU ARPABET: D IH1 L D OW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

intj

Meaning 1

A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A small town on the island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A device used for sexual penetration or another sexual activity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A device used for sexual penetration or another sexual activity.

An artificial penis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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5

noun

Meaning 5

Any device or implement.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: derogatory, slang, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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6

noun

Meaning 6

An idiot; a bore.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: derogatory, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk, bimbo, birdbrain, blockhead, blubberbrain, bonehead, Boeotian, boob, bozo, brainlet, brickhead, bubblehead, bubble brain, bufflehead, buffoon, Charlie, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, cittern-head, clod, clodpate, clot, clown, crackhead, cretin, cuckoo, deadhead, dimbo, dim bulb, dimbus, dimwit, dingbat, ding dong, dingleberry, dingwad, dip, dipstick, doldrum, dolt, donut, doodle, doof, doofoid, doofus, dope, dork, drivel, drongo, drool bucket, dullard, dumb bunny, dumbbell, dumb cluck, dumbhead, dumble, dumbling, dumbnut, dumbo, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, eejit, fathead, featherbrain, fenderhead, fleabrain, fool, fopdoodle, galoot, gimboid, gomer, gonk, goober, goof, goofball, goofy, goon, goose, goosecap, gorbuson, gudgeon, halfwit, ha'porth, hammerhead, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, inbred, jackaninny, jellybrain, jerk, juggins, jughead, knothead, knucklehead, lackwit, lamebrain, log, loggerhead, lummox, lunk, lunkhead, maroon, meatball, meathead, mental midget, mome, momo, mongoloid, mongtard, monkey, moron, mouth breather, muggins, mushhead, muttonhead, mutt, nimrod, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit, nitwit, noddy, noodlehead, numbskull, oaf, peabrain, peagoose, pillock, pigwidgeon, pinhead, plank, plonker, prat, put, putz, retard, sap, saphead, schmo, silly, simp, simpleton, smooth brain, snapperhead, sot, space cadet, spanner, stupe, stupid, stupid-head, tard, thickhead, thickskull, thicko, tomfool, tonto, toolbox, tosspot, turkey, twit, wally, wantwit, wazzer, wazzock, witless wonder, yo-yo, zany, Vulgar:, ass, assclown, asshat, asshead, asstard, asswipe, buttbreath, dildo, dipshit, donkey dick, Alternative spelling of dumbass., dumbfuck, dumbfucker, dumbshit, farthead, fuck-knuckle, fucktard, fuckwit, jackass, peckerhead, shitbrain, shithead, shitneck, shitwit, twat

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A columnar cactus of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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8

verb

Meaning 8

To penetrate with a dildo or with another object as if it were a dildo.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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9

noun

Meaning 9

a vibrating device that substitutes for an erect penis to provide vaginal stimulation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: vibrator

History

Etymology

Related to other nonsense syllables like dido and diddle(-diddle), which similarly developed sexual senses. Found since at least the 1500s, often in contexts where allusion is being made to the sexual sense (above). Possibly influenced by Middle English dildoun (“darling, pet”), early modern English dildin (“sweetheart”); compare Old Norse dilla (“to lull”), dillindo (“lullaby”).

Uncertain; see the Wikipedia article for some possible origins.

Unclear; possibly an alteration of English diddle. Compare the use as an expressive nonsense syllable in often sexual songs and the spelling dil doul, found in e.g. The Maids Complaint for want of a Dil Doul, a song in the library of Samuel Pepys. Unlikely to be related to Italian diletto (“delight”) or Latin dīlātō (“to open up, spread”), often cited etymologies.

Across languages

Translations

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: قَضِيب اِصْطِنَاعِيّ (qaḍīb iṣṭināʕiyy) — artificial phallus
  • Armenian: արհեստական առնանդամ (arhestakan aṙnandam) — artificial phallus
  • Middle Armenian: զուպայ (zupay) — artificial phallus
  • Belarusian: фалаіміта́тар (falaimitátar) — artificial phallus
  • Bengali: ডিলডো (ḍiloḍō) — artificial phallus
  • Bengali: ডিল্ডো (ḍilḍō) — artificial phallus
  • Bulgarian: изку́ствен пе́нис (izkústven pénis) — artificial phallus
  • Bulgarian: ди́лдо (díldo) — artificial phallus
  • Bulgarian: фа́лос (fálos) — artificial phallus
  • Catalan: consolador — artificial phallus
  • Catalan: olisbe — artificial phallus
  • Catalan: godomací — artificial phallus
  • Chinese Cantonese: 假陽具 /假阳具 (gaa2 joeng4 geoi6) — artificial phallus
  • Chinese Cantonese: 假鳩 /假鸠 (gaa2 gau1) — artificial phallus
  • Chinese: 角車 /角车 (kakchhia) — artificial phallus
  • Chinese: 假膦鳥 /假膦鸟 (kélānchiáu) — artificial phallus
  • Chinese Mandarin: 假陰莖 /假阴茎 (jiǎyīnjīng) — artificial phallus
  • Chinese Mandarin: 假雞巴 /假鸡巴 (jiǎjībā) — artificial phallus
  • Chinese Mandarin: 按摩棒 (ànmóbàng) — artificial phallus
  • Czech: robertek — artificial phallus
  • Czech: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Danish: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Danish: vibrator — artificial phallus
  • Dutch: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Dutch: vibrator — artificial phallus
  • Esperanto: gadmeso — artificial phallus
  • Faroese: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Faroese: vibratorur — artificial phallus
  • Finnish: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Finnish: hieromasauva — artificial phallus
  • French: godemichet — artificial phallus
  • French: gode — artificial phallus
  • French: phallus artificiel — artificial phallus
  • French: olisbos — artificial phallus
  • French: dildo — artificial phallus
  • French: miché — artificial phallus
  • French: michet — artificial phallus
  • German: Dildo — artificial phallus
  • German: Plastikschwanz — artificial phallus
  • Greek: όλισβος (ólisvos) — artificial phallus
  • Ancient Greek: ὄλισβος (ólisbos) — artificial phallus
  • Ancient Greek: βαυβών (baubṓn) — artificial phallus
  • Hindi: डिल्डो (ḍilḍo) — artificial phallus
  • Hungarian: dildó — artificial phallus
  • Hungarian: műfasz — artificial phallus
  • Irish: bod bréige — artificial phallus
  • Italian: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Italian: vibratore — artificial phallus
  • Japanese: 張形 — artificial phallus
  • Japanese: ディルド (dirudo) — artificial phallus
  • Korean: 딜도 (dildo) — artificial phallus
  • Korean: 모조남근 (mojonamgeun) — artificial phallus
  • Latin: fascinum — artificial phallus
  • Macedonian: дилдо (dildo) — artificial phallus
  • Macedonian: вештачки пенис (veštački penis) — artificial phallus
  • Norwegian Bokmål: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Polish: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Polish: jebadło — artificial phallus
  • Portuguese: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Portuguese: consolo — artificial phallus
  • Romanian: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Russian: фаллоимита́тор (falloimitátor) — artificial phallus
  • Russian: ди́лдо (díldo) — artificial phallus
  • Russian: самоты́к (samotýk) — artificial phallus
  • Serbo-Croatian: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Spanish: consolador — artificial phallus
  • Spanish: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Swedish: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Swedish: löspenis — artificial phallus
  • Turkish: dildo — artificial phallus
  • Turkish: zıbık — artificial phallus
  • Ottoman Turkish: مچاچنك (meçaçeñ) — artificial phallus
  • Ukrainian: фалоіміта́тор (faloimitátor) — artificial phallus
  • Welsh: cala goeg — artificial phallus