dodge

Meaning

Verb

1. To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
2. To avoid; to sidestep.
3. To go hither and thither.
4. To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
5. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
6. To trick somebody.

Noun

1. An act of dodging.
2. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
3. (slang) A line of work.

Adj

Dodgy.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɒd͡ʒ/

Etymology

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”).