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noun
Someone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A person full of tricks or street smarts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
An advertising leaflet; a flyer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, countable, slang
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noun
Bread.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, US, dated, slang, uncountable
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noun
A member of the Dodgers US professional baseball team, either before or after they moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: corn dab, corn dodger
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Broader terms: cornbread
noun
a shifty deceptive person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: fox, slyboots
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
History
Etymology tree English dodge Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English dodger From dodge + -er.
Across languages
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
