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dodger

25 9.1

A small oval corn bread cake often baked or fried in Southern cooking

noun
/ˈdɑdʒər/

: tortita de maíz

For dinner, I made chicken and served it with warm corn dodgers.
corn dodgers

Examples

His education was practical: "If a corn-dodger costs two cents, and a fella hasn't got two cents, how's he going to get a corn-dodger?"

Fiction book (1992)
Black-eyed peas and corn dodgers, kosher hot dogs and Boston baked beans, we got them all.

Fiction book (1993)
Why are they called corn dodgers?

Rooster Cogburn (1975)
It's full of corn dodgers.

Rooster Cogburn (1975)
The cook prepared a batch of crispy corn dodgers to complement the chili.
At the festival, they had a vendor selling delicious fried corn dodgers.

Synonyms

corn dodger

vsdodger

7.9

A small oval cornmeal cake usually baked or fried

is the shorter traditional one-word regional name for that cake

corn dab

vsdodger

8.6

A small oval cake made with cornmeal that is fried or baked

is the standard regional term rather than this variant

Compounds

draft dodger

9 7.8

A person who avoids military service illegally

artful dodger

1 8.5

A person who uses tricks to avoid work or blame

bath dodger

Archaic

9.9

A person who often does not wash or bathe

coffin dodger

Offensive

9.9

An old person who people jokingly say has avoided death

corn dodger

7.9

A small oval cornmeal cake usually baked or fried

oven dodger

Informal

9.7

A person who avoids cooking at home and prefers eating out or ready meals

todger dodger

Offensive

9.9

A person who avoids work or duties by making excuses

Surface Forms

dodger singular

dodgers plural

Etymology

Dodger in corn dodger is an American food name for a small corn cake and likely talks about the cakes' size and quick cooking. A helpful way to remember it is to think of these little cakes as easy to 'grab' or to 'move quickly' in a hot pan, which is why the name came to mean this small corn bread.