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dodge
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dodge—To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
/dɒd͡ʒ/, /dɑd͡ʒ/
Origin
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”).
verb
- ambitransitiveTo avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.“He dodged traffic crossing the street.”“But that was only the start, because the Fletchers - (obviously) carrying two torpedo launchers - were only launching half-salvos, so one full wave of torpedoes had driven off the cruisers after havin”
- figuratively, transitiveTo avoid; to sidestep.“The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.”“The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was ”
- transitiveTo elude.““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!””
- ambitransitive, archaicTo go, or cause to go, hither and thither.“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 mean”
- 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).
- transitiveTo follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.“"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."”“A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.”“Miss Griffin screamed after me, the faithless Vizier ran after me, and the boy at the turnpike dodged me into a corner, like a sheep, and cut me off.”
- ambitransitive, datedTo trick somebody.
noun
- An act of dodging.
- 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.”““Ain't this a rum go? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.””“He knows everybody, and is up to all the dodges of editorial management and newspaper cliques.”
- slangA line of work.“In the marketing dodge, that is known as rub-off.”“Through a series of unconventional circumstances, some my fault, Jackie had found herself working both civil and criminal sides of the real estate dodge, which put her among a rare breed of attorney [”
adj
- Australia, British, colloquialDodgy.
name
- US, countableA surname originating as a patronymic.
- countable, uncountableA village in Nebraska.
- countable, uncountableA city and village in North Dakota.
- countable, uncountableA census-designated place in Oklahoma.
- countable, uncountableA town in Wisconsin.
- countable, uncountableA brand of motor vehicle.
Formsdodges(present, singular, third-person) · dodging(participle, present) · dodged(participle, past) · dodged(past) · dodges(plural) · more dodge(comparative) · most dodge(superlative) · Dodges(plural)
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Daily Puzzle #1878 · August 10, 2026
Sedecordle Board 9 #117 · August 5, 2026
Sedecordle Board 16 #71 · June 20, 2026
Duotrigordle Board 29 #64 · June 13, 2026
Daily Puzzle #244 · February 18, 2022
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