didoes

Variant of dido

noun pl. didoes or didos

Informal a mischievous or foolish action

Origin: < ? Dido, from the story that Dido, on purchasing as much land as might be covered with the hide of a bull, ordered the hide cut into thin strips, with which she surrounded a large area

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