 The sex toy might take its name from this sailing tool, which also lends its name to the town of Dildo and the nearby Dildo Island in Newfoundland, Canada.Others suggest the word is a corruption of Italian "diletto" "delight".According to the "OED", one of the word's first appearances in English was in Thomas Nashe's "The Choice of Valentines" "or the Merie Ballad of Nash his Dildo" (c. 1593), in the sentence "Curse Eunuke dilldo, senceless, counterfet, | Who sooth maie fill, but neuer can begett" ('curse dildo, that eunuch, lacking feelings, and counterfeit, who can certainly fill [a vagina], but can never beget [children]').