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dodo

do·do

(dō′dō)

n. pl. do·does or do·dos

1. A large flightless bird (Raphus cucullatus) with a hooked beak that inhabited the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until it became extinct in the late 1600s.

2. Informal One who is out-of-date, as in dress or ideas.

3. Informal A stupid person; an idiot.

[Portuguese dodó, alteration of obsolete Dutch dodors : Dutch dot, tuft of feathers + obsolete Dutch ors, tail (from Middle Dutch ærs; see ors- in Indo-European roots).]

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dodo

(ˈdəʊdəʊ)

n, pl dodos or dodoes

1. (Animals) any flightless bird, esp Raphus cucullatus, of the recently extinct family Raphidae of Mauritius and adjacent islands: order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc). They had a hooked bill, short stout legs, and greyish plumage. See also ratite

2. informal an intensely conservative or reactionary person who is unaware of changing fashions, ideas, etc

3. (as) dead as a dodo (of a person or thing) irretrievably defunct or out of date

[C17: from Portuguese doudo, from doudo stupid]

ˈdodoism n

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do•do

(ˈdoʊ doʊ)

n., pl. -dos, -does.

1. a large, extinct, flightless bird, Raphus cucullatus, of the pigeon family, formerly inhabiting Mauritius.

2. Slang. a dull-witted, slow-reacting person.

[1620–30; < Portuguese doudo, fool, madman]

dodo

- Comes from Portuguese doudo, "fool, simpleton," from the bird's awkward appearance.

dodo

[ˈdəʊdəʊ] N (dodos or dodoes (pl))

1. (Zool) → dodó m
see also dead A1

2. (US) (= fool) → bobo/a m/f

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dodo

[ˈdəʊdəʊ] [dodoes] (pl) n

→ dronte m

(= silly person) → andouille f

dodo

→ Dodo m, → Dronte f; as dead as a dodo → mausetot

(US inf: = silly person) → Trottel m (inf)

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dodo

[ˈdəʊdəʊ] n

a. (Zool) → dodo
as dead as a dodo → morto/a e sepolto/a

b. (fam) (fool) → scemo/a

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Another problem with this is that information technology is moving so quickly that, by the time children leave school, computer applications like Twitter will be as dead as the dodo.

The internet is child's play

"A senior analyst believes that production of objective intelligence at CIA will soon be as dead as the dodo, to be replaced by a cherry-picked product like that used by the administration to support its incursion into Iraq." Needless to say, any value the CIA had in identifying actual terrorist threats to our nation will suffer.

Decimating our counter-intelligence capacity

Does it matter that the Scottish Crossbill could one day be as dead as the dodo? I think it does.

Noun	1.	dodo - someone whose style is out of fashion fogey, fogy, fossil colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech golden ager, old person, oldster, senior citizen - an elderly person
	2.	dodo - extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons Raphus cucullatus columbiform bird - a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes genus Raphus, Raphus - type genus of the Raphidae: dodos