dodo in English
- dodo⇄dodo, noun, pl.-dosor-does.
1. a large, clumsy bird not able to fly. Dodos lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and became extinct in the 1600's.
2. (Figurative.)
a. anyone or anything out-of-date.
Ex. The 1961 Co - dodo⇄expr. dead as a (or the) dodo, out-of-date; out-moded; extinct.
Ex. I think this idea is as dead as a dodo (U Thant). Hand-done arithmetic, apart from keeping of household accounts, is as dead as the dodo (Maclean's).