Meaning
Baby-talk for sleep — 'go dodo' means go to sleep, said soothingly to a baby or a small child at bedtime. A tender nursery word that every Jamaican grows up hearing, sung and murmured to settle a fretful infant, it belongs to the gentle private language between mother and child. (Separately, and more rarely, 'dodo' can be baby-talk for faeces, so context matters.) In its main sense it is one of the sweetest of the nursery words, the lullaby-word for drifting a little one off to sleep.
Examples
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Come, baby, time fi go dodo.
Come, baby, it's time to go to sleep.
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Di likkle one gaan a him bed fi dodo.
The little one's gone to his bed to sleep.
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Hush now, mek di baby dodo.
Hush now, let the baby sleep.
Origin
A nursery/baby-talk word for sleep, of the kind found across many cultures (compare French 'faire dodo').
How it’s used
Baby-talk for sleep ('go dodo'). Note a separate rare baby-talk sense of 'faeces' — context decides.