Dodger vs Dodged - What's the difference?
dodger | dodged |
One who dodges.
(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.
(dodge)
To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
(figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
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, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 (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
As a noun dodger
is one who dodges.As a verb dodged is
past tense of dodge.dodger
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* (companionway cover) sprayhoodDerived terms
* artful dodger * coffin dodger * draft dodger * salad dodger * tax dodgerdodged
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*dodge
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(dodg)- He dodged traffic crossing the street.
- The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
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- 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.