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corn dodger
[ kawrn doj-er ]
noun
- South Midland and Southern U.S. a small, usually oval cake made of cornmeal batter and baked or fried in a skillet.
- Chiefly South Atlantic States and Eastern Virginia. a boiled dumpling made of cornmeal.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of corn dodger1
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Example Sentences
Their food was of the plainest kind as far as bread went, corn dodger being the most common.
Corn dodger for breakfast, so cold you could keep fish on it, and as hard as the rocks in this wall!
I'm your friend, Aleck, you can bet your corn dodger on that.
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.
The settlers have an expression, "Corn dodger and common doin's," as contradistinguished from "Wheat bread and chickin fixin's."
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