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dodged
/dɑdʒd/ · 6 letters · 4 distinct letters
A form of dodge.
- verb
make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
The child dodged the teacher's blow
- verb
move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
the pickpocket dodged through the crowd
- verb
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
He dodged the issue
- noun
an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track
- noun
a quick evasive movement
Word history
History of dodge
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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- Where it comes from
- Listed in the English Speller Database at size 35: the core list of everyday words.
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- Used about once in every million words.
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