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Dodger   /dˈɑdʒər/   Listen
Dodger

noun
1.
A shifty deceptive person.  Synonyms: fox, slyboots.
2.
Small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern).  Synonyms: corn dab, corn dodger.



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"Dodger" Quotes from Famous Books



... unable to follow these observations, "you are a clever dodger, but you can't dodge me. Have you any statement to make with reference to the lady that was last seen ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw

... a bloody fine lot of prices they was, too, if the truth was known!' said Bundy. 'There was six other firms after this job to my knowledge—Pushem and Sloggem, Bluffum and Doemdown, Dodger and Scampit, Snatcham and Graball, Smeeriton and Leavit, Makehaste and Sloggitt, and Gord ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... the old beech partridge. When he spread his tail wide and darted away among the beeches, his color blended so perfectly with the gray tree trunks that only a keen eye could separate him. And he knew every art of the dodger perfectly. When he rose there was scarcely a second of time before he had put a big tree between you and him, so as to cover his line of flight. I don't know how many times he had been shot at on the wing. Every hunter I knew had tried it many times; and every boy who ...
— Secret of the Woods • William J. Long



Words linked to "Dodger" :   corn dab, deceiver, beguiler, trickster, corn dodger, slicker, draft dodger, cheater, dodge, cheat, fox, cornbread



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