• IPA: /ˈdɪldəʊ/
• (British) IPA: [ˈdɪɫdəʊ]
• (America) IPA: [ˈdɪɫdoʊ]

dildo (plural dildos)

1. An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use.
2. (pejorative) An idiot, a bore.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 22:

     ‘Thompson?’ Heydon-Bayley had shrieked. ‘But he's a complete dildo, surely?’
     ‘I like him,’ said Adrian. ‘He's unusual.’
     ‘Graceless, you mean. Wooden.’

3. (botany) A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii).

• French: godemichet, gode, phallus artificiel, olisbos, dildo, miché, michet
• German: Dildo, Plastikschwanz
• Italian: dildo, vibratore
• Portuguese: dildo, consolo (Brazil)
• Russian: фаллоимита́тор
• Spanish: consolador

dildo (dildoes, present participle dildoing; past and past participle dildoed)

1. (transitive) To penetrate with a dildo or with another object as if it were a dildo.
   • 1681, Scudamore, Homer A la Mode, 2, 48:

     Venus […] is Dildo'd by Cauda Draconis.

   • 2010, Reggie Chesterfield, Goody Goes Bad!, page 40:

     A muscular female prison guard was dildoing a petite brunette with a night stick.

1. (obsolete) A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song.
   • c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

     , Act IV, scene iv:

     He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes; […] with such delicate burthens of dildos and fadings,

   • circa 1600 Thomas Morley, Will You Buy a Fine Dog?:

     Will you buy a fine dog, with a hole in his head?

     With a dildo, dildo, dildo; […]

   • circa 1600-1636 William Sampson, The Vow Breaker:

     oh Vrsula, Vrsula pity me with a dildo, dildo, dillory?

1. A small town on the island of Newfoundland.