Dido
['daɪdəʊ]
Definition
(noun.) (Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas.
Checker: Walter--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
Edited by Horace
Definition
n. (slang) an antic caper.—Cut up didoes to behave in an extravagant way.
Checker: Sigmund
Examples
- Well, what about this modern Dido? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I will not even refer to Dido or Zenobia. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Laurie is as full of didoes as usual, and turns the house upside down frequent, but he heartens the girls, so I let em hev full swing. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Typist: Rudy