Verb

(head)

(codge)

Verb

(codg)

To patch or cobble together; to make hastily and carelessly.

* 1990 , Rosalind Miles, Ben Jonson: his craft and art (page 159)

this it was that branded him as one of the contemporary theatre's journeymen hack 'playwrights', in his own disparaging phrase, ready to turn a hand to anything, and able to codge up a play to order from any materials at hand.

Verb

(head)

(dodge)

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.

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(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.