dido
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The Buffalo doth proudly prance, Whenever the hunters will give him a chance, And over the prairies he leads them a dance, Oh! fiddledy, diddledy, dido!
From Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon. by Addie Ledyard
"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 Susanna Moodie
We'll go there together, Dave, and cut a dido.'
From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Ernest G. Henham
When I seed him hangin' there I cut a dido and kep' screamin', 'Miss Gusta, he's a-dyin',' and them Fed'rals got plumb tickled at me.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration
Three times that night she woke in the bed with her curl-papers crackling for very fright; and the fourth time 'twas at the sound of a real dido below stairs.
From News from the Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
A puerile play, relating the didoes in an Adirondack hunting lodge, when a gentleman crook poses to a house party as its owner and the real owner is arrested.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite his misgivings about its didoes, he is fantastically proud of the city, and works 14 hours a day at his trying job.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oldsters worried at first that the children would indulge in more didoes than devotions, but they were soon impressed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meat repeated the same didoes as of last July.
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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
Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, the humorist who finds parliamentary didos far from funny, was angrily shouting and waving his arms to rally the Opposition benches.
From Time Magazine Archive
For such didos he won the somewhat dubious title of "The King of Glory."
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
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
