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dodge

Pronunciation: /dɒd͡ʒ/

The English word “dodge” has 11 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
  2. To avoid; to sidestep.
  3. To elude.
  4. To go, or cause to go, hither and thither.
  5. 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).
  6. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
  7. To trick somebody.

noun

  1. An act of dodging.
  2. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
  3. A line of work.

adjective

  1. Dodgy.

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”).

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