Dido

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  • noun. A mischievous prank or antic; a caper.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An old story.
  • noun. A caper; a prank; a trick.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
  • noun. to play a trick; to cut a caper; -- perhaps so called from the trick of Dido, who having bought so much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a citadel.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adverb. Common misspelling of ditto.
  • noun. A fuss, a row.
  • noun. A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
    • Word Usage
    ""Halse has been running round with him, on the sly, for a month, and they've got some kind of a 'dido' planned out.""
    cross-reference
    to cut a dido  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    princess  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Fido  Hokkaido  fido  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    antic  awakener  becuase  ci-dessus  disport  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    antic  antic  bauble  bibelot  caper  
    variant
    didoes  
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