corn dodger

[ kawrn doj-er ]

noun

1. South Midland and Southern U.S. a small, usually oval cake made of cornmeal batter and baked or fried in a skillet.
2. Chiefly South Atlantic States and Eastern Virginia. a boiled dumpling made of cornmeal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of corn dodger¹

An Americanism dating back to 1830–35; origin uncertain, perhaps related to northern English dialect dodge “lump”

Example Sentences

Their food was of the plainest kind as far as bread went, corn dodger being the most common.

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Corn dodger for breakfast, so cold you could keep fish on it, and as hard as the rocks in this wall!

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I'm your friend, Aleck, you can bet your corn dodger on that.

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The ham did not seem very good, the cabbage he could not eat, the corn-dodger choked him, he had no desire to wait for the pie.

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The settlers have an expression, "Corn dodger and common doin's," as contradistinguished from "Wheat bread and chickin fixin's."

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