1. A mischievous or capricious act; prank, antic — often used in the phrase cut didoes
2. Something that is frivolous or showy

(Roman mythology) A princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of he suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas.
Phoenician princess. The legendary founder of Carthage, N Africa, she committed suicide to avoid marrying a local prince. In the Latin epic Aeneid, Virgil represents her death as the result of her desertion by the Trojan hero Aeneas.