Etymology

dollarydoo

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Today it means: The Australian dollar. Full definition →

English didgeridoo ← Dutch daler ← Middle Low German dāler
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*dalą
  2. Proto-West Germanic*dal
  3. Old High Germantal
  4. Middle High Germantal
  5. GermanTal
  6. GermanTaler
  7. Middle Low Germandāler
  8. Dutchdaler
  9. Englishdollar
  10. Englishdidgeridoo
  11. English todaydollarydoo

Blend of dollar + didgeridoo. A faux-Australianism originally coined as "dollaridoos" by television writers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein for “Bart vs. Australia”, an episode (1995) of the animated sitcom The Simpsons.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.