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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.
Word History and Origins
Origin of corn dodger1
Example Sentences
Try the experiment of mixing whole corn meal with water and a little salt, and baking it into hard, crisp "corn dodgers."
It is a kind of corn cake, Molly told me, the parent, so to speak, of the corn dodger, and the grandparent of hoecake.
We sometimes had to live on Johnny cake and corn dodger, and sometimes our living was scant.
Their food was of the plainest kind as far as bread went, corn dodger being the most common.
Garnish chicken platter with slices of cold boiled ham or crisp bacon, and corn dodgers and you will have a typical "Old Dominion" dish.
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