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verb

Dodge v. t.

To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.

Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility. (Colloq.)

To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.

Dodge v. i. (past & past part. dodged; pres. part. dodging)

To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.

To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. "Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity."

noun

Dodge n. The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice. (Colloq.) "Some, who have a taste for good living, have many harmless arts, by which they improve their banquet, and innocent dodges, if we may be permitted to use an excellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appearance of the last dictionaries."

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"Dodge" Quotes from Famous Books

... same yard. She was full of fight. Knowing how repulsive she was to me, she was often the first to open hostilities, mocking my way of speaking, or sticking out her tongue at me. Or else she would press her freckled cheek against my lips and then dodge back, shouting, gloatingly: "He has kissed a girl! He has kissed a girl! Sinner! Shame! ...

— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan

... father. If one of them had dared I wonder whether the blood would have liquefied. Do you remember, in the 'Nibelungenlied,' that Hagen is forced to prove his innocence by touching Siegfried's corpse—and fails? That is the point—he fails. Our own Shakespeare knew the dodge. When Henry VI was being borne to Chertsey in an open coffin, the Lady Anne made ...

— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy

... he'll forget that I am around and give me a chance to get away," he reasoned. "Guess I had better try that dodge on him." ...

— Tom Swift and his Motor-cycle • Victor Appleton

... little birds who have a reputation for carrying inconvenient pieces of information, that on several evenings, just at dusk, a girl who wore a boarder's hat had been seen to leave the garden and hurry up the road, returning about five minutes later to dodge with great caution inside the gate. Such a proceeding was manifestly irregular and highly improper. Miss Poppleton, at first indignant at the very idea that one of her pupils could be guilty of so great an indiscretion, ...

— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil

... many prospectors, depending on their black-boys almost entirely, wander from one range of hills to another, dodge here and there for water, keep no count or reckoning, and only return by the help of their guide when the "tucker-bags" are empty; others make a practice of standing two sticks in the ground on ...

— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie

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