dodge
Plural: dodges
Noun
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- a quick evasive movement
- a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
- An act of dodging.
- A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
- A line of work.
Verb
Verb Forms: dodged, dodging, dodges
- To avoid by a sudden quick movement; to evade or elude.
- make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
- "The child dodged the teacher's blow"
- move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
- "the pickpocket dodged through the crowd"
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- "He dodged the issue"
- To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- To avoid; to sidestep.
- To elude.
- To go, or cause to go, hither and thither.
- To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker.
- To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- To trick somebody.
Adj
- Dodgy.
Examples
- He dodged traffic crossing the street.
- He tried to DODGE the challenge by quickly starting his next Words With Friends turn.
- The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
circumvent, contrivance, dodging, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, scheme, sidestep, skirt, stratagem, shun
Scrabble Score: 8
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