Dido vs Dado - What's the difference?
dido | dado |
(slang, regional) A fuss, a row.
*1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 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 .
A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
*1838 , Joseph Clay Neal, Charcoal Sketches; Or, Scenes in a Metropolis ,
*:Young people," interposed a passing official, " if you keep a cutting didoes , I must talk to you both like a Dutch uncle.
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(architecture) The section of a pedestal above the base.
(architecture) The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.
(carpentry) The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.
To furnish with a dado.
To cut a dado.
As nouns the difference between dido and dado
is that dido is a fuss, a row while dado is the section of a pedestal above the base.As an adverb dido
is misspelling of lang=en.As a proper noun Dido
is founder and first Queen of Carthage.As a verb dado is
to furnish with a dado.dido
English
Etymology 1
Origin unknown. The "trick" sense might come from the trick of Dido, queen of Carthage, who, having bought as much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to enclose a spot for a citadel.Noun
(didoes)- to cut a dido
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