dido
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Perhaps you don't think she means it when she goes to every 'tea' and 'recital' and 'at home' and crazy dido from here to Beersheba and back.
From Cap'n Dan's Daughter by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
The Crocodile doth open his jaws, Like great big ugly tusky doors, And gobbles you up without a pause, Oh! fiddledy, diddledy, dido!
From Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon. by Ledyard, Addie
We'll go there together, Dave, and cut a dido.'
From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Henham, Ernest G.
That would be a pretty dido, I must say!
From The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna or, The Crew That Won by Morrison, Gertrude W.
"If the brute had cut up such a dido under your bed, you would have been as 'turnal sceared as I was."
From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna
Oldsters worried at first that the children would indulge in more didoes than devotions, but they were soon impressed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Certain curmudgeons m these parts will hear with relief that Miss Lawrence has somewhat abated since her last didoes in New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meat repeated the same didoes as of last July.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nevertheless, the committee could still be expected to cut didoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our youngest uncle, Billy, was not old enough to join in their didoes.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Fibber's garrulous tarradiddles, the broguish comeuppances Molly metes out to him, the dated didos of his numerous stooges, are as familiar as the pattern of the living-room rug.
From Time Magazine Archive
As always, Arlene's personal didos were gay, frolicsome and deceptively casual.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old Johnson fans needed no explanation of such zany didos; Johnson was simply dramatizing his crusade against folks who eat popcorn In theaters.
From Time Magazine Archive
San Francisco suspected that the Southern Pacific's rate-cutting didos might have something to do with the road's scheme to sell its ferry franchise to the State Toll Bridge Authority for some $3,750,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
So I just stood there with monkeys, dollars, ponies, and .22s running around in my head, and waited while Grandpa cut all kinds of didos.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
