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I came across this (www.oddee.com/item_96646.aspx) when perusing various pages on the oddee site (which has lots of odd stuff). As far as I can tell there is no conclusive answer to the word's origin, but I quite like this explanation:
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The word dildo was not actually used until the Renaissance period, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but one fanciful explanation of its origin was a small elongated loaf of bread flavored with dill, thus “dilldough.”
One writer in the renaissance period referred to the popularity of dildos imported from Italy:
You ladies all of merry England
Who have been to kiss the Duchess' hand,
Pray, did you not lately observe in the show
A noble Italian called Signor Dildo? ...
A rabble of pricks who were welcomed before,
Now finding the porter denied them the door,
Maliciously waited his coming below
And inhumanly fell on Signor Dildo ...
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The word dildo was not actually used until the Renaissance period, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but one fanciful explanation of its origin was a small elongated loaf of bread flavored with dill, thus “dilldough.”
One writer in the renaissance period referred to the popularity of dildos imported from Italy:
You ladies all of merry England
Who have been to kiss the Duchess' hand,
Pray, did you not lately observe in the show
A noble Italian called Signor Dildo? ...
A rabble of pricks who were welcomed before,
Now finding the porter denied them the door,
Maliciously waited his coming below
And inhumanly fell on Signor Dildo ...
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Re: Possible origin of the word 'Dildo'
Sat, October 10, 2009 - 2:36 PMdildo
c.1593, perhaps a corruption of It. deletto "delight," or (less likely) of Eng. diddle (q.v.). "Curse Eunuke dilldo, senceless counterfet" ["Choise of Valentines or the Merie Ballad of Nash his Dildo," T. Nashe, c.1593]
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Re: Possible origin of the word 'Dildo'
Mon, October 12, 2009 - 8:30 AMThank god. Now I finally know.
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Re: Possible origin of the word 'Dildo'
Sat, October 24, 2009 - 10:31 PMI had always assumed there must be some kind of Greek root for the word dildo, especially since dildos originated in ancient Greece.
But then, I don't know Greek, so I really couldn't say.
