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Dodger   /dˈɑdʒər/   Listen
Dodger

noun
1.
A shifty deceptive person.  Synonyms: fox, slyboots.
2.
Small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern).  Synonyms: corn dab, corn dodger.



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"Dodger" Quotes from Famous Books



... successful customers; at last he said, "Arrah, sure, master!—no, I manes my lord—you are not going to ruin a poor boy!" "Ruin you!" said the other; "what! by winning a guinea's change? a pretty small dodger you—if you have not sufficient capital, why do you engage in so deep a trade as thimbling? come, will you stand another game?" "Och, sure, master, no! the twenty shillings and one which you have cheated me of were all I had in the world." "Cheated ...
— The Romany Rye • George Borrow

... popular document in the free-silver propaganda was W.H. Harvey, Coin's Financial School (c. 1894). This was replied to by Horace White, Coin's Financial Fool; or the Artful Dodger Exposed (c. 1896); and the same author, in Money and Banking (4th ed., 1911), discusses the economics of free silver. The best economic arguments for free silver came from the pens of Francis A. Walker and ...
— The New Nation • Frederic L. Paxson



Words linked to "Dodger" :   cornbread, deceiver, corn dodger, beguiler, cheater, slicker, dodge, slyboots, fox, cheat, corn dab, trickster



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