dodon.

Brit.

/ˈdəʊdəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈdoʊˌdoʊ/

Etymology: < Portuguese doudo simpleton, fool, as adj. silly.

An extinct bird, Didus ineptus, belonging to the family Columbidæ, formerly inhabiting the island of Mauritius; it had a massive clumsy body, and small wings of no use for flight; transferred and figurative, an old-fashioned, stupid, inactive, or unenlightened person. (as) dead as the (or a) dodo: see dead adj. 32b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Raphidae (dodo)

dodo1628

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] > age-related

dodo1886

fuddy-duddy1904

fuddydud1914

1628 E. Altham Let. to Sir E. Altham 18 June in Proc. Zool. Soc. (1874) 448 A strange fowle: which I had at the Iland mauritius called by y^e portingalls a DoDo.

1628 E. Altham Let. to Sir E. Altham 18 June in Proc. Zool. Soc. (1874) 448 [P.S.] Of m^r perce you shall receue a iarr of ginger..and a bird called a DoDo, if it live.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 211 Mauritius..here and here only and in Dygarroys, is generated the Dodo, [1638 347 a Portuguize name it is, and has reference to her simplenes] which for shape and rarenesse may Antigonize the Phœnix of Arabia.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 21 Like the Dodoes wings, more to looke at, then for execution.

c1650 H. L'Estrange in Sloane MS. 1839. 5, lf. 54 About 1638, as I walked London streets, I [saw] the picture of a strange fowle hong out upon a cloth..went in to see it. It..was a great fowle, somwhat bigger then the largest Turkey Cock.. The keeper called it a Dodo.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 289/1 A Dodo, or Dronte..doth equal a Swan in bigness.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 78 Three or four dodos are enough to dine an hundred men.

1831 H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. ii. 154 The Dodo seems to afford us an example of the extinction of an animal in comparatively recent times.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Feb. 1/1 The old dodo at Scotland Yard, roused into a state of feverish activity..yesterday converted itself by a tremendous effort into a gigantic turkey-cock.

1896 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 62 157/2 If he has not indeed gone the way of the dodo and the dinotherium.

1922 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 18 June (1964) 164 Tom Boyd wrote me that Bridges had been a dodo about some Y.M.C.A. man.

1950 A. Wilson (title) Such darling dodos.

attributive.1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne II. viii. 177 He belongs to the Dodo race of real unmitigated..Toryism.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dodo
释义	dodon. Brit. /ˈdəʊdəʊ/, U.S. /ˈdoʊˌdoʊ/ Etymology: < Portuguese doudo simpleton, fool, as adj. silly. An extinct bird, Didus ineptus, belonging to the family Columbidæ, formerly inhabiting the island of Mauritius; it had a massive clumsy body, and small wings of no use for flight; transferred and figurative, an old-fashioned, stupid, inactive, or unenlightened person. (as) dead as the (or a) dodo: see dead adj. 32b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Raphidae (dodo) dodo1628 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] > age-related dodo1886 fuddy-duddy1904 fuddydud1914 1628 E. Altham Let. to Sir E. Altham 18 June in Proc. Zool. Soc. (1874) 448 A strange fowle: which I had at the Iland mauritius called by y^e portingalls a DoDo. 1628 E. Altham Let. to Sir E. Altham 18 June in Proc. Zool. Soc. (1874) 448 [P.S.] Of m^r perce you shall receue a iarr of ginger..and a bird called a DoDo, if it live. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 211 Mauritius..here and here only and in Dygarroys, is generated the Dodo, [1638 347 a Portuguize name it is, and has reference to her simplenes] which for shape and rarenesse may Antigonize the Phœnix of Arabia. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 21 Like the Dodoes wings, more to looke at, then for execution. c1650 H. L'Estrange in Sloane MS. 1839. 5, lf. 54 About 1638, as I walked London streets, I [saw] the picture of a strange fowle hong out upon a cloth..went in to see it. It..was a great fowle, somwhat bigger then the largest Turkey Cock.. The keeper called it a Dodo. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 289/1 A Dodo, or Dronte..doth equal a Swan in bigness. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 78 Three or four dodos are enough to dine an hundred men. 1831 H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. ii. 154 The Dodo seems to afford us an example of the extinction of an animal in comparatively recent times. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Feb. 1/1 The old dodo at Scotland Yard, roused into a state of feverish activity..yesterday converted itself by a tremendous effort into a gigantic turkey-cock. 1896 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 62 157/2 If he has not indeed gone the way of the dodo and the dinotherium. 1922 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 18 June (1964) 164 Tom Boyd wrote me that Bridges had been a dodo about some Y.M.C.A. man. 1950 A. Wilson (title) Such darling dodos. attributive.1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne II. viii. 177 He belongs to the Dodo race of real unmitigated..Toryism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1628
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