dildo

Etymology 1

Unclear; possibly an alteration of English diddle; compare the use of dildo², like diddle, as an expressive nonsense syllable in often sexual songs. Compare 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 (“I open up, spread”), often cited etymologies. .]]

noun

1. An artificial phallus (penis) for sexual use.
2. (derogatory) An idiot, a bore.
   I take back cars from dildos who don't pay their bills. Cool huh? 1984, Alex Cox, Repo Man, spoken by Otto Maddox (Emilio Estevez)
3. (derogatory, vulgar, slang) Any device or implement.
   Call ghost hunters? Those fuckers will show up with gas powered dildos and burn the woods down. 2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 43
4. A columnar cactus of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii).
   The commonest and most conspicuous of the cacti is the "dildoe" (Cereus Swartzii), a columnar form growing to as much as 20 feet in height, a plant the gross physiology of which is probably very similar to that of the sahuaro (Camegiea gigantea). 1910, Forrest Shreve, “The coastal deserts of Jamaica”, in The Plant World: An Illustrated Monthly Journal of Popular Botany, volume 13, pages 129–130

verb

1. (transitive) To penetrate with a dildo or with another object as if it were a dildo.
   And Venus (one that so much known is) / Is Dildo’d by Cauda Draconis. 1681, Homer Alamode, the Second Part in English Burlesque, or, Mock Poem upon the Ninth Book of the Iliads, page 48
   A muscular female prison guard was dildoing a petite brunette with a night stick. 2010, Reggie Chesterfield, Goody Goes Bad!, page 40

Etymology 2

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”).

intj

1. (obsolete) A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song.
   Will you buy a fine dog, with a hole in his head? With a dildo, dildo, dildo; […] c. 1600, Thomas Morley, Will You Buy a Fine Dog?
   oh Vrsula, Vrsula pity me with a dildo, dildo, dillory? c. 1600-1636, William Sampson, The Vow Breaker