Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. · To avoid; to sidestep. · To elude. · To go, or cause to go, hither and thither.
An act of dodging. · A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) · A line of work.
Dodgy.
Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
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