dodge

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English

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɒd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɑd͡ʒ/

• Rhymes: -ɒdʒ

Verb

dodge (third-person singular simple present dodges, present participle dodging, simple past and past participle dodged)

1. (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
3. (archaic, ambitransitive) To go, or cause to go, hither and thither.
4. (photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker.

   Coordinate term: burn

5. (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
6. (ambitransitive, dated) To trick somebody.

Synonyms

• (to avoid): duck, evade, fudge, skirt, shun

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

dodge (plural dodges)

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

Derived terms

• scaldrum dodge

Translations

Adjective

dodge (comparative more dodge, superlative most dodge)

1. (Australia, British, colloquial) Dodgy.