Wodge vs Dodge - What's the difference?
wodge | dodge |
(chiefly, UK, colloquial) A bulk quantity; usually of small items, particularly money.
*2012 , , ‘At War with Ceausescu’, Literary Review , issue 399:
*:Bad food, bad drinks, no decent pubs, no laughter in public, and dodgy money-changers hissing that communism was shit and who then disappeared, leaving us with wodges of worthless notes.
To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
(figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
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, 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 wodge
is (chiefly|uk|colloquial) a bulk quantity; usually of small items, particularly money.As a proper noun dodge is
derived from a (etyl) diminutive of roger (typically found in the united states).wodge
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(en noun)dodge
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(dodg)- He dodged traffic crossing the street.
- The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
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.}}
- 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.
