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Chevy vs Dodge - What's the difference?

chevy | dodge |

As nouns the difference between chevy and dodge

is that chevy is a hunt or pursuit while dodge is an act of dodging.

As verbs the difference between chevy and dodge

is that chevy is to hunt or chase while dodge is to avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.

As a proper noun Dodge is

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chevy

English

Noun

(chevies)
  • A hunt or pursuit.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to hunt or chase
  • :* 1893': On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to ' chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’ (Norton 2005, p.666)
  • See also

    * Chevrolet

    dodge

    English

    Verb

    (dodg)
  • To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
  • He dodged traffic crossing the street.
  • (figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
  • The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
  • (archaic) To go hither and thither.
  • (photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn).
  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
  • * Coleridge
  • A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.

    Synonyms

    * (to avoid) duck, evade, fudge, skirt

    Derived terms

    * dodge a bullet * dodger * dodgy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of dodging
  • A trick, evasion or wile