dodger n.2
1. (Aus./US) bread, a sandwich, food in general; thus hunk/yunk of dodger, a slice of bread.
Col. Crockett’s Tour to North and Down East 105: To mould it, and fashion it, and make it a dodger or a johnny-cake, and bake one side or both. | ||
Eight Months in Illinois 34: Hoe cake, pona bread and dodger. | ||
Twelve Years A Slave 67: I cut and handed to each a slice of meat and a ‘dodger’ of the bread. | ||
Squatter Sovereign (Atchison, KS) 18 Sept. 1/3: Why don’t people have more dodger and less gingerbread fixings? They’d be the better for it. | ||
Sedalia Bazoo (MO) 10 Dec. 4/2: Their edibles consist of bacon [and] either dodger or hoe-cake. | ||
Hants. Advertiser 24 Feb. 2/3: A ‘dodger’ is a small cake or biscuit. | ||
Omaha Dly Bee 14 May 4/7: If angels bringing me some dish [...] would set before my hungry eyes a pone of dodger bread! | ||
Digger Dialects 19: dodger — Bread. | ||
(con. WWI) Soldier and Sailor Words 79: Dodger, A: [...] Also a Sandwich. | ||
Und. Speaks 32/1: Dodger, bread. | ||
Mail (Adelaide) 22 June 23/1: Members of the new A.I.F. have the same word as the old A.I.F. for porridge [...] burgoo [...] A slice of bread is called a ‘yunk of dodger’. | ||
Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. 24: Dodger, food of any kind. Also, a ‘yunk of dodger’, a slice of bread. | ||
They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 51: Smack us in the eye with another hunk o’ dodger. | ||
Holy Smoke 9: He tells young Dave he’d best shoot through for a coupla days and take the troops a few loaves of home-baked dodger. | ||
Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 24: Dodger Bread. | ||
Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Dodger. Baked bread. |
2. (US) the penis.
Bawdy N.Y. State MS. n.p.: My cloths flew up and my feet flew up too, / And the head of his dodger looked awfully blue. |