Dodo

Quick meaning: Dodo is a noun meaning A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.

Meaning

A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.
2. (golf) A hole in one.
3. (Nigeria) Fried plantain.

Example Sentences

One popular Nigerian dish is fried plantain, which is called “dodo.”

Mother had banned it a year or so earlier after Obembe and I stole pieces from Mother's cooler, and lied that we'd seen rats eating the dodos.

In spite of the most active search, during the last century, no information respecting the dodo was obtained, and some authors have gone so far as to pretend that it never existed; […]

Within a very few years after these islands shall have become regularly settled, in all probability this fox will be classed with the dodo, as an animal which has perished from the face of the earth.

Word Forms

• dodoes
• dodos

Synonyms for dodo

Depending on context, synonyms include dotard, fogy, fogey, fossil.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fossil, fogy, dotard, fogey, lullaby, bed.

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