dodge
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
broadcasting
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
videography
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: dodges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dodging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dodged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dodged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dodges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more dodge
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dodge
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: 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 having savaged the destroyers, aaand then it was a case of, well, here come twenty-five destroyers, here comes^([sic]) two hundred and fifty torpedoes, hello Japanese battleships, dodge this!
gloss: To avoid; to sidestep.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 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 painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
gloss: To elude.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “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!”
gloss: To go, or cause to go, hither and thither.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
archaic
examples: 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 meant no harm. […]
gloss: 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).
pos: verb
gloss: To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "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.
gloss: To trick somebody.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
dated
gloss: An act of dodging.
pos: noun
gloss: A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A line of work.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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 […]
gloss: Dodgy.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
UK
colloquial
Derived words: dodgeable
dodge a bullet
dodgeball
dodgeful
dodgem
dodger
dodgery
dodge the column
dodge up
dodgy
draft-dodge
outdodge
undodged
scaldrum dodge
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