dido
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"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
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 Addie Ledyard
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 Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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
Oldsters worried at first that the children would indulge in more didoes than devotions, but they were soon impressed.
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
Nevertheless, the committee could still be expected to cut didoes.
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
Our youngest uncle, Billy, was not old enough to join in their didoes.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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
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
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
As always, Arlene's personal didos were gay, frolicsome and deceptively casual.
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
