dodgen.1
/dɒdʒ/, U.S. /dɑdʒ/ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [noun] > avoiding by moving to the side
dodge1575
dodging1593
jouking1871
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > evasion or escape from threat > evasive action > an act of
jouk1513
dodge1575
slip1607
jink1786
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle ii. i. sig. Biiv Ther was a fowler fault, my gammer ga me ye dogde [sic].
1606 Wily Beguilde 24 Shall I trouble you so farre to take some paines with me? I am loth to haue the dodge.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. iv. 25 I was hard run enough by your Mother for one Man; but after giving her a Dodge, here's another..follows me upon the Foil. View more context for this quotation
1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve II. 116 He was forced to avoid him by giving a sudden dodge to one side.
2.
a. A shifty trick, an artifice to elude or cheat.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > a trick, deception
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swikec893
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trayc1430
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quaint?a1450
touch1481
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false point?1528
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quiblin1605
foist1607
junt1608
firk1611
overreach?1615
fob1622
ludification1623
knick-knacka1625
flam1632
dodge1638
gimcrack1639
fourbe1654
juggle1664
strategy1672
jilt1683
disingenuity1691
fun1699
jugglementa1708
spring1753
shavie1767
rig?1775
deception1794
Yorkshire bite1795
fakement1811
fake1829
practical1833
deceptivity1843
tread-behind1844
fly1861
schlenter1864
Sinonism1864
racket1869
have1885
ficelle1890
wheeze1903
fast one1912
roughie1914
spun-yarn trick1916
fastie1931
phoney baloney1933
fake-out1955
okey-doke1964
mind-fuck1971
1638 D. Featley Stricturæ in Lyndomastygem i. 201, in H. Lynde Case for Spectacles I have beate the Iesuit heretofore out of this dodge.
1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel Pref. p. lxiv To put a dodge upon the Protestants to weaken their Faith.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xvi. 172 ‘It was all false, of course?’ ‘All, Sir,’ replied Mr. Weller. ‘Reg'lar do, Sir; artful dodge.’
1860 J. Bright in Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 158 283 I am altogether against any kind of dodge by which this matter may be..settled.
b. on the dodge: engaged in crooked or dishonest proceedings.
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society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [phrase] > dishonestly > engaged in dishonesty
on the dodge1904
on the queer1905
1904 ‘O. Henry’ Heart of West (1912) xi. 214 I've been on the dodge for a month, and I'd like to rest up.
1920 J. M. Barrie Kiss for Cinderella i. 26 If you wanted to get into Buckingham Palace on the dodge, how would you slip by the policeman?
3. colloquial and slang. A clever or adroit expedient or contrivance (cf. trick n. 3 in similar use): popularly extended to a machine, a natural phenomenon, etc.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient
costOE
craftOE
custc1275
ginc1275
devicec1290
enginec1300
quaintisec1300
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castc1340
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conject14..
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policy?1406
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trade1550
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contrivement1611
artifice1620
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contrivance1661
excogitation1664
mechanism1669
expediency1683
stroke1699
spell1728
management1736
manoeuvre1769
move1794
wrinkle1817
dodge1842
jigamaree1847
quiff1881
kink1889
lurk1916
gadget1920
fastie1931
ploy1940
1842 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 111 The alternation of green and corn crops is a good dodge.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxx. 294 [They] have many harmless arts..and innocent ‘dodges’ (if we may be permitted to use an excellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appearance of the last dictionaries).
?1856 F. E. Smedley Harry Coverdale's Courtship iii. 14 I'd start to America, and do Niagara, and all the other picturesque dodges [etc.].
1867 Earl of Malmesbury Mem. Ex-Minister (1884) II. 376 To show us how to light a good fire by some dodge of lighting the wood at the back.
4. Change-ringing. See quot. 1684, and cf. dodge v. 7.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] > going through all the changes > changes > position in changes
lead1671
dodge1684
hunt1684
1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 93 The..Meaning of a Dodge is this; any Bell that is coming down, and is to make a Dodge, must move up again one Bell higher, and any Bell that is going up, and is to make a Dodge, must come down one Bell lower, and then up or down as the Course of such Bell requires.
1880 G. Grove Dict. Music In change-ringing terms, the 4th and 5th [bells] are said to ‘make places’, and the 2nd and 3rd are said to make a ‘double dodge’.
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dodgeball n. originally U.S. a game in which the object is to throw a ball so that it hits and thereby eliminates other players.There are several versions of the game, which vary with respect to the type and number of balls used, whether players compete as teams or individuals, etc.
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1900 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Republican 25 Apr. 7/4 Dodge Ball... Miss Kessey. Captain... Miss Achter. Captain.
1974 I. D. Yalom & G. Elkin Every Day gets a little Closer iii. 105 There she was, ten years old.., playing dodge ball, sticking her tongue out at me and neatly ducking every throw I made.
2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 25 Aug. 15 Dodgeball..has been described as a Darwinian battle in which only the strong survive and the weak just get pummelled.
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dodgen.2
northern dialect.
A large irregular piece, a lump.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [noun] > a dense or solid thing or body > of something
clouda1350
clota1398
clodc1420
cake1549
dodge1562
concretion1617
1562 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 207 j dodge of iron viijd. Fowr axes xvjd.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Dodge, a pretty large cut or slice of any kind of food. Dodgel, a large piece or lump. [1895 Still in use.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
Dodgen.3
/dɒdʒ/, U.S. /dɑdʒ/ colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
to get (the hell, heck) out of Dodge: to leave, esp. quickly; to flee.
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1965 National Observer (U.S.) 10 May 1/5 Here are some of the expressions..the gang members were using... ‘Get out of Dodge’ (lay low).
1972 New Pittsburgh Courier 23 Sept. 12/3 Melinda..gets her hat and coat and gets the hell out of Dodge.
1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 28 May (Sports section) 1 This is the Steele strategy—work for one big inning every game, invoke the 20-run rule and get the heck out of Dodge at the end of the fifth.
1993 Virginian Pilot & Ledger-Star 6 July d1/1 The kind of day to think about getting the heck out of Dodge,..to dream about chucking it all for a place in the country.
2004 A. Goodman & D. Goodman Exception to Rulers x. 192 We should have given the citizens of Baghdad forty-eight hours to get out of Dodge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dodgev.
/dɒdʒ/, U.S. /dɑdʒ/ 1. intransitive.† b. To use shifts or changes of position (with a person, etc.), so as to baffle or catch him. Obsolete.
a. To move to and fro, or backwards and forwards; to keep changing one's position or shifting one's ground; to shuffle.
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1704 R. Steele Lying Lover ii. 18 Don't stand staring and dodging with your Feet, and wearing out your Livery Hat with squeezing for an Excuse.
1720 J. Quincy tr. N. Hodges Loimologia vii. 189 Whensoever a Buboe is uncertain and dodges, sometimes appearing and then again going back.
1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 324 The Dragon fly..in a hovering Posture, dodging up and down in the Water.
1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 62 Whenever he went dodging about the village.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)]
to come and goc1384
babble1440
play1513
popple1555
dance1563
bob1568
dodge1645
waft1650
reciprocate1678
lollop1851
pump1887
piston1930
yo-yo1967
1645 J. Milton On University Carrier i, in Poems 28 He had any time this ten yeers full, Dodg'd with him, betwixt Cambridge and the Bull.
1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. Postscr. 7 He began to dodge with his pursuers.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 182 The King..had been dodging with Essex eight or ten Days.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 128 Do you think we can stand here all day to be turning and dodging with you, like greyhounds after a hare?
c. To move to and fro about, around, or behind any obstacle, so as to elude a pursuer, a missile, or a blow, or to get a sudden advantage of an enemy.
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1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 22 Trees, about which they may dodg.
1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 426 Dodging behind the mizzen mast, and falling down upon the deck at the noise of the enemy's shot.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. iv. 90 He was obliged to dodge round his horse.
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. viii. iii. 331 Amongst full grown timber, a skilful runner can escape an elephant by dodging round the trees.
2. intransitive.† a. To go this way and that way in one's speech or action; to be off and on; to parley, palter, haggle about terms. Obsolete.† c. to dodge it: to haggle. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > bargaining > bargain [verb (intransitive)]
bargain1525
hucka1529
hucker1548
dodge1568
blockc1570
pelt1579
hack1587
haggle1589
to beat the bargain1591
to beat the market1591
huckster1593
niffera1598
badger1600
scotch1601
palter1611
cheapen1620
higgle1633
tig-tag1643
huckle1644
chaffer1693
chaffer1725
dicker1797
niffer1815
Jew1825
hacker1833
banter1835
higgle-haggle1841
hondle1921
wheel and deal1961
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)]
haltc825
flecchec1300
waverc1315
flickerc1325
wag1387
swervea1400
floghter1521
stacker1526
to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530
wave1532
stagger1533
to hang in the wind1536
to waver as, like, with the wind1548
mammer1554
sway1563
dodge1568
erch1584
suspend1585
float1598
swag1608
hoverc1620
hesitate1623
vacillate1623
fluctuate1634
demur1641
balance1656
to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674
to stand shall I, shall I1674
to go shill-I shall-I1700
to stand at shilly-shally1700
to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734
whiffle1737
dilly-dally1740
to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751
oscillate1771
shilly-shally1782
dacker1817
librate1822
humdrum1825
swing1833
(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848
to back and fill1854
haver1866
wobble1867
shaffle1873
dicker1879
to be on the weigh-scales1886
waffle1894
to think twice1898
to teeter on the brink1902
dither1908
vagulate1918
pern1920
1568 J. Jewel Answer Harding's Detect. Foul Err. in Def. Apol. Church Eng. (1611) 127 If yee doubt heereof, leaue dodging in your note Bookes, and read S. Cyprian, and ye shall find it.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 13v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The Merchaunt and he stoode dodging one wyth the other in cheaping the ware.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician ix. 335 If the Disease go not off presently, we must not stand dodging, but give a gentle purging potion.
a1763 J. Byrom Careless Content (R.) For lack or glut, for loss or gain, I never dodge, nor up nor down.
b. To play fast and loose, change about deceitfully; to shuffle with a person; to prevaricate.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > act evasively [verb (intransitive)]
haft1519
shuffle1565
dodge1575
palter1580
shift1580
hedge1611
boggle1615
subterfuge1622
prevaricatea1625
to shuffle up and down1633
evade1660
sophisticate1664
janka1689
whiffle1737
tongue-twist1836
caffle1851
pussyfoot1902
sidestep1904
spruce1916
to fudge and mudge1980
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle v. ii. sig. Ciiii Fie, dost but dodge.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. iii. §12. 490 They did him no manner of good: but rather dodged with him; euen in that little courtesie which they most pretended.
a1721 M. Prior Turtle & Sparrow (1723) 109 With Fate's lean tipstaff none can dodge.
1859 S. Smiles Self-help (1860) xiii. 340 He does not shuffle nor prevaricate, dodge nor skulk.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > make an agreement [verb (intransitive)] > negotiate
driveOE
treat1297
chaffer1377
broke1496
hucka1529
capitulate1537
hack1587
haggle1589
huckster1593
negotiate1598
to stand out1606
palter1611
to drive a hard bargaina1628
priga1628
scotch1627
prig1632
higgle1633
to dodge it1652
to beat a (the) bargain1664
1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 210 That frankness of disposition,..not permitting him to dodge it upon inches & ells.
3. transitive. To play fast and loose with; to baffle or parry by shifts and pretexts; to trifle with.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hinder [verb (transitive)] > by shifts or pretexts
dodge1573
1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 15 Thus was I doggid and dodgid on everi side.
1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 256 Loth to be dodged and abused with endless uncertainties and dissimilitudes.
1697 Occas. Conformity 27 To make the matter a Game, to dodge Religions, and go in the Morning to Church, and in the Afternoon to the Meeting.
1860 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams in Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 145 He dodged me with a long and loose account.
1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xxiv. 559 The Crown lawyers had again to dodge the case..by a trick of their craft.
4. To avoid an encounter with (a person or thing) by changes of position, shifts, or doublings; to elude (a pursuer, etc.) by shifts or sideward movements.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > cause to move sideways [verb (transitive)] > avoid by moving to the side
dodge1680
jinka1774
jouk1812
sidestep1894
side-slip1921
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > contrive to escape or evade > a blow, missile, or pursuit
waive1303
voida1500
devoid1509
avoid1530
shuna1586
shift1595
dodge1713
jinka1774
jouk1812
1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius iv. 44 Asunder we may dodge our Fate.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. xiv. 242 The Doubling of the Hare..to dodge and deceive the Dogs.
1893 E. F. Knight Where Three Empires Meet xxiv. 366 Rocks..would come rolling down upon us, and had to be nimbly dodged.
1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny 19 Where blows aimed at the victims had evidently been dodged.
5. To follow stealthily, and with shifts to avoid discovery, as by keeping behind intervening objects. (Cf. dog v.1 1.)
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the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow [verb (transitive)] > follow stealthily
followOE
dodge1728
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > traverse stealthily [verb (transitive)] > hiding behind objects
dodge1728
1728 H. Fielding Love in Several Masques iv. iii. 51 La. Match. Promise not to dodge us. Wi. Not even to look after you.
1814 F. Burney Wanderer IV. 51 If they saw any suspicious persons dodging them.
1840 Lady C. M. C. Bury Hist. Flirt xi I will never quit you..I will dodge your steps.
6. To move (a thing) to and fro, or up and down; to lead (an examinee) to and fro in a subject of examination and not straight on.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (transitive)]
work1617
reciprocate1653
pump1803
gig1815
dodge1820
pumphandle1851
trombone1879
yo-yo1973
1820 Sporting Mag. 6 266 Two pieces of wood had been introduced between the hoof and the shoe; after replacing the shoe again the horse was dodged, and discovered to be perfectly sound.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. viii. 113 He said, pompously, ‘Seven times nine, boy!’ And how should I be able to answer, dodged in that way..!
1880 Daily Tel. 7 Oct. It would be absolutely childish to go on dodging the Fleets about from Cattaro to Volo [etc.].
7. intransitive. Change-ringing. Said of a bell rung in a chime, when, instead of following in its regular ascending or descending order, as in plain hunting, it is shifted one place in the opposite direction, and then in the next round back again to resume its course, until another dodge occurs.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [verb (intransitive)] > go through all the changes > position in changes
lead1671
dodge1684
hunt1684
to make places1874
1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 101 In this Bob, when the Treble leaves the two Hind Bells, they dodge 'till it comes there again, and 'till the Treble gives Way for the dodging again of the said two Hind Bells, the two first Bells dodge, but after cease dodging, when the two Hind Bells dodge.
1872 H. T. Ellacombe Church Bells Devon ii. 29.
1880 G. Grove Dict. Music at Changes The first three bells go through the six changes of which they are capable..while the bells behind ‘dodge’.
8. intransitive (technical). To occupy positions alternately on the one side and the other of a medial line.
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dodging, said of mortises, when they are not in the same plane at the hub. By spreading the butts of the spokes where they enter the hub, dodging on each side of a median line, alternately, the wheel is stiffened against a lateral strain.
9. transitive. Photography. To use any artifice to improve (the negative) for printing.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [verb (transitive)] > improve negative
dodge1883
to drop out1948
1883 J. T. Taylor Hardwich's Man. Photogr. Chem. (ed. 9) 335 The important operations of ‘dodging’ and ‘printing-in’.
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 349 That ‘dodging’ had been resorted to to make the tree print well.
10. transitive. Salt-making (Cheshire). (See quot. 1884.)
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1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Dodging, salt-making term. Knocking scale off the plates over the fire.
11. transitive and intransitive (dialect) To jog (see quots.).
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the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (intransitive)] > go at pace between walking and running
shiga1400
shog1530
jog1565
whig1689
fadge1694
dodge1802
shack1833
jog-trot1837
joggle1883
1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss. (Jam.) Dodge, to jog, or trudge along.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Dodge, to jog, to incite.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Dodge, (1) to jog, incite.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Dodge-on, to go along, making the best of an affliction..‘Hey! it a bad job, but Ah mun dodge-on somehoo or other’.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > introduce or bring something in [verb (transitive)] > intrude or insinuate
intruse?a1500
ingyre1513
shuffle1565
cog1570
foist1570
wind?1570
obtrudea1575
interject1588
filch?1589
intrude1592
inthrust1605
possess1606
suborna1620
inedge1632
interlopea1641
subintroducteda1641
subintroduce1643
to hedge in1664
insinuate1665
dodge1687
lug1721
assinuate1742
wriggle1766
fudge1776
intertrude1809
injeer1820
protrude1840
sniggle1881
1687 R. L'Estrange Answer to Let. to Dissenter 47 A Paradox of Conscience Dodg'd into a Popular Scheme of Government!
13. to dodge Pompey: (a) to evade work (Naval slang); (b) see quot. 1930 (Australian slang).
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1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 38 Dodging Pompey, avoiding work on shipboard. Originally a naval phrase entirely.
1930 R. V. Billis & A. S. Kenyon Pastures New iii. 46 Browne detailed the laws passed, not to encourage the overlander, but rather to counteract his habit of stealing grass—‘dodging Pompey’, as it was known.
1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 73 Dodging Pompey, skulking, or avoiding work by the use of any semi-legitimate excuse.
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