dodger

See also: Dodger

English

Etymology

From dodge +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒd͡ʒ.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.d͡ʒɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɒdʒə(ɹ)

Noun

dodger (countable and uncountable, plural dodgers)

Dodger on a small sailing boat

1. (countable) Someone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving).
2. (countable) A person full of tricks or street smarts.
3. (countable, nautical) A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.
4. (countable, Australia, slang) An advertising leaflet; a flyer.
5. (uncountable, Australia, US, slang, dated) Bread.

Synonyms

• (companionway cover): sprayhood

Derived terms

• artful dodger
• bath dodger
• coffin dodger
• corn-dodger
• devil dodger
• draft dodger
• fare dodger
• fare-dodger
• jammy dodger
• oven dodger
• salad-dodger
• salad dodger
• soap-dodger
• soap dodger
• superdodger
• tax dodger
• todger dodger

 

Translations

one who dodges

• Bulgarian: хитрец (bg) m (hitrec), мошеник (bg) m (mošenik)
• Finnish: väistäjä, väistelijä, välttelijä
• German: Umgeher m, Ausweicher m
• Italian: imbroglione (it) m, evasore fiscale m
• Macedonian: и́змамник m (ízmamnik), и́трец m (ítrec)
• Maori: wae māminga

person full of tricks or street smarts

• German: Schlawiner (de) n, Drückeberger (de) n

nautical: companionway cover in a sailboat

• Bulgarian: корабна тента f (korabna tenta)
• Dutch: buiskap (nl)
• Finnish: sprayhood, roiskesuoja
• German: Sprayhood n
• Italian: paraspruzzi m
• Macedonian: за́штитен па́раван m (záštiten páravan)

Anagrams

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