单词 | dodger |
释义 | dodgern. 1. One who dodges, in various senses of the verb; in early use, esp. a haggler; later, esp. one who practises artful shifts or dodges. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > bargainer or haggler chafferera1382 bargainera1500 dodger1568 trucker1598 haggler1602 dickerer1872 badgerer1876 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives swikec1000 wielerOE adderOE knavec1275 treacherc1290 guiler1303 gabbera1325 tricharda1327 faitoura1340 jugglera1340 beswiker1340 wernard1362 knackerc1380 beguilera1382 deceiver1382 illusor1382 deceivant1393 fob1393 falsea1400 mocker?c1450 feature14.. deceptor1484 seductor1490 bullera1500 troker?a1500 craftera1529 circumventorc1540 bobber1542 cloyner?1550 illuder?1550 tricker1550 double-dealer1567 treacherer1571 falsary1573 abuser1579 falser1579 treachetour1590 deluder1592 ignis fatuus1592 foolmonger1593 prestigiator1595 aguiler1598 baffler1606 cog-foist1606 feaguer1610 guile-man1614 hocus-pocus1624 colt1632 hoodwink1638 blindfoldera1649 napper1653 cheat1664 fooler1677 underdealer1682 circumvenerc1686 chincher1688 dodger1698 nickum1699 sheep-shearer1699 trickster1711 bilker1717 trickologist1723 taker-in1776 bilk1790 duper1792 Yorkshire bite1801 intake1808 gammoner1819 doer1840 delusionist1841 fiddler1857 snide1874 hoodwinker1884 tanger1886 take-down1888 tiddlywinker1893 wangler1912 frost1914 twicer1924 lurkman1945 jive-ass1964 skanker1973 1568 T. Harding Detection Sundrie Foule Errours f. 226 By this a man may know what a Dodger you are, and whence your great bookes procede. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A pinch penie, a paltrer, a dodger, a miser, a penie father. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cagueraffe, a base micher, scuruie hagler, lowsie dodger. 1698 A. Boyer & J. Savage tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont in T. Hearne Ductor Historicus I. ii. vi. 216 Tacitus has no good Morals; He is a great Dodger,..he always speaks more out of Policy than according to Truth. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. ii. 48 A shy cock this Frank Tyrrel..a very complete dodger!.. I shall wind him, were he to double like a fox. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. viii. 127 Among his intimate friends he was better known by the sobriquet of ‘The artful Dodger’. 2. a. U.S. A hard-baked corn-cake. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pancake, tortilla, or oatcake > [noun] corn-cake1791 sour cake1793 dodger1831 1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants ii. 152 Dodgers are masses [of corn meal] like small loaves of bread, prepared in a similar manner [i.e. with water or milk], and baked in the spider or skillet. 1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) I. vi. 83 Hoe cake, johny cake, waffle cake, and dodger cake. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iv. 39 Corn-cake, in all its varieties of hoe-cake, dodgers, muffins. 1882 Garden 13 May 327/1 I prospered rarely in the South on ‘dodgers’. b. A sandwich; bread, food. Australian and Services' slang. Also dialect (cf. dodge n.2). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [noun] > sandwich sandwich1762 butty1827 round1901 dodger1919 wad1919 sanger1943 sarnie1961 sarmie1970 sambo1972 sammie1978 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 19 Dodger, bread. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 79 A dodger..a sandwich. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 24 Dodger, food of any kind. Also, a ‘yunk of dodger’, a slice of bread. 1957 ‘N. Culotta’ They're Weird Mob (1958) 51 Smack us in the eye with another hunk o' dodger. 1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 27 Dodger, bread or sometimes crude cake. ‘Gimme a slice er dodger.’ 3. U.S. A small handbill or circular. ΚΠ 1884 Fargo (Dakota Territory) Broadaxe 7 Apr. With dodgers of warning distributed at the different polling-places. 1888 Boston Jrnl. 11 Feb. 5/4 I never in my life used such a thing as a poster, a dodger or a handbill. 4. Salt-making. (See quot. 1884) Cf. dodge v. 10. ΚΠ 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Dodger, salt-making term; a long~headed hammer with a long handle, used for knocking off the scale or incrustations of lime or dirt on the pan bottoms when the pan is at work; also called Dodging Hammer. 5. On a ship: a screen to afford protection from spray, etc. Also, a protective shield used on a rocket, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > devices to protect ship from weather > screen to protect from spray, etc. dodger1898 weather-screen1914 weather-dodger1924 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > rocket > [noun] > other parts of rocket fin1935 dodger1956 skirt1964 shroud1965 1898 C. J. C. Hyne Adventures Capt. Kettle x. 260 Under shelter of the dodgers on the upper bridge. 1898 C. J. C. Hyne Adventures Capt. Kettle x. 262 Kettle hung on behind the canvas dodgers at the weather end of the bridge. 1942 J. Masefield Generation Risen 42 Sprays are freezing on the dodger. 1956 Jrnl. Brit. Interplan. Soc. 15 126 A dodger or shield had been placed at some distance from the thrust-balance. 1959 P. McCutchan Storm South vi. 75 Wynton took..shelter..behind a canvas dodger secured to the weather mizzen rigging. 6. A game. ΚΠ 1928 Daily Tel. 30 Oct. 7/2 The dodger,..Throw and sit, and King of the Castle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). dodgeradj. Australian slang. Good, excellent. ΚΠ 1941 in S. J. Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 24. 1953 D. Stivens Gambling Ghost 1 Instead of having to risk a knock on the Pearly Gates everything was dodger. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1568adj.1941 |
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