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.

Origin of corn dodger

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

Their food was of the plainest kind as far as bread went, corn dodger being the most common.
Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln | James H. Shaw
corn dodger for breakfast, so cold you could keep fish on it, and as hard as the rocks in this wall!
The Bondboy | George W. (George Washington) Ogden
I'm your friend, Aleck, you can bet your corn dodger on that.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander Berkman
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 End Of The World | Edward Eggleston
The settlers have an expression, "corn dodger and common doin's," as contradistinguished from "Wheat bread and chickin fixin's."
Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln | Isaac Newton Arnold

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