dodger
pronunciation
How to pronounce dodger in British English:
UK [ˈdɒdʒə(r)]
How to pronounce dodger in American English:
US [ˈdɑdʒə(r)]
-
- Noun:
- a shifty deceptive person
- small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly Southern)
Word Origin
- dodger (n.)
- 1560s, "one who dodges," in the literal or figurative (especially underworld) senses of dodge. The U.S. word meaning "corn cake" is recorded from 1831, perhaps a different word (compare Northern English dialectal dodge "lump, large piece," 1560s).
Example
- 1. Soon the dodger entered with a cheerful young man named charley bates .
- 2. The n suddenly the dodger stopped and put his finger to his lips .
- 3. One afternoon the dodger and charley bates were at home and they started telling oliver about their lives as thieves .
- 4. Oliver looked from the dodger to charley bates with great surprise and confusion , but he had been told not to ask questions .
- 5. Why don 't you have a dodger pennant up ?