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Dodge
Definitions
- 1 Dodgy. Australia, British, colloquial
- 1 A surname originating as a patronymic. US, countable
- 2 A placename; A village in Nebraska. countable, uncountable
- 3 A placename; A city and village in North Dakota. countable, uncountable
- 4 A placename; A census-designated place in Oklahoma. countable, uncountable
- 5 A placename; A town in Wisconsin. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A brand of motor vehicle. countable, uncountable
- 1 An act of dodging.
- 2 a quick evasive movement wordnet
- 3 A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
"The dodges of women beat all comprehension; and I am sure she wouldn’t let the lad off so easily, if she had not some other scheme on hand."
- 4 an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade wordnet
- 5 A line of work. slang
"In the marketing dodge, that is known as rub-off."
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- 6 a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery wordnet
- 1 To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. ambitransitive
"He dodged traffic crossing the street."
- 2 avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) wordnet
- 3 To avoid; to sidestep. figuratively, transitive
"The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply."
- 4 make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid wordnet
- 5 To elude. transitive
"“We must follow after this dreadnought, hard on her tracks. She shall not dodge me though she hide in unfathomed waters, or in the earth's bosom, or in lonely woods, or on crags!”"
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- 6 move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course wordnet
- 7 To go, or cause to go, hither and thither. ambitransitive, archaic
"Or if a footpad asks him for his money, what need he care provided he has an umbrella? He threatens to dodge the ferrule into the ruffian’s eye, and the fellow starts back and says, “Lord, sir! I meant no harm. […]"
- 8 To make an area of an image lighter (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by decreasing the exposure of that area to light).
- 9 To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. transitive
""I had a notion he was dodging me all the way I came, for I saw him just behind me, turn which way I would.""
- 10 To trick somebody. ambitransitive, dated
Etymology
Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
From a Middle English diminutive form of Roger.
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