different between dummy vs dodge

English

Alternative forms

• dumbie, dumby (rare)

Etymology

From dumb +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?mi/
• Rhymes: -?mi

Noun

dummy (plural dummies)

1. (dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk.

   Synonym: dumby

   Coordinate term: mute
2. An unintelligent person.

   Synonym: dumby

   Coordinate terms: half-wit, idiot

3. A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
4. Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.

   Synonyms: mannequin, marionette
5. A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
6. A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.

7. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier. [from 20th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pacifier

   • 2006, Tizzie Hall, Save Our Sleep: A Parents? Guide Towards Happy, Sleeping Babies from Birth to Two Years, MacMillan 2009, page 200,

     Then on the fifth day, at the first sleep of the day, remove the dummy and follow my settling guide for your baby?s age. You should throw all her dummies in the bin to ensure you are not tempted to use them again – even outside sleep times.

   • 2011, Simone Cave, Caroline Fertleman, Baby to Toddler Month by Month, page 85,

     We?ve found that going cold turkey works best – you check that your baby isn't ill or teething, then throw all dummies away. When your baby cries for her dummy, you can look her in the eye and say, ‘It?s gone,’ and really mean it.

8. (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
9. (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.

10. (programming) An unused parameter or value.

11. (sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
12. (sports, Britain) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.

    Synonym: juke

Derived terms

• dummy bid
• dummy bidder
• sell the dummy

Related terms

• (silent person): dumb
• (unintelligent person): dumb

Translations

See also

(non-functional device):

• dud
• fake

(gesture meant to fool):

• feint

Further reading

• http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002594.php

Verb

dummy (third-person singular simple present dummies, present participle dummying, simple past and past participle dummied)

1. To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.

   The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.

2. (sports) To feint.

   Synonym: juke

Adverb

dummy (comparative more dummy, superlative most dummy)

1. (slang) Extremely.

   It's dummy hot outside.

Derived terms

• dummy out
• dummy up

English

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly from Old English dydrian, by way of dialectal dodd or dodder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?d?/

• Rhymes: -?d?

Verb

dodge (third-person singular simple present dodges, present participle dodging, simple past and past participle dodged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.

   He dodged traffic crossing the street.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.

   The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
3. (archaic) To go hither and thither.
4. (photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
5. (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, II.iii.7:

     “I had a notion he was dodging me all the way I came, for I saw him just behind me, turn which way I would.”

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.
6. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To trick somebody.

Synonyms

• (to avoid): duck, evade, fudge, skirt, shun

Derived terms

• dodge a bullet
• dodger
• dodgy

Translations

Noun

dodge (plural dodges)

1. An act of dodging.
2. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
   • 1869, Punch (volume 57, page 257)

     “Ain't this a rum go? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.”
3. (slang) A line of work.
   • 1992, Time (volume 140, issues 1-9, page 74)

     In the marketing dodge, that is known as rub-off.

   • 2009, Chris Knopf, Head Wounds (page 233)

     Through a series of unconventional circumstances, some my fault, Jackie had found herself working both civil and criminal sides of the real estate dodge, which put her among a rare breed of attorney […]

Adjective

dodge (comparative more dodge, superlative most dodge)

1. (Australia) dodgy