different between quail vs dodge

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwe?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English quaylen, from Middle Dutch queilen, qu?len, from Old Dutch *quelan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwelan, from Proto-Germanic *kwelan? (“to suffer”). Doublet of queal.

Alternative forms

• quele (obsolete)
• queal (obsolete)

Verb

quail (third-person singular simple present quails, present participle quailing, simple past and past participle quailed)

1. (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither [from 15th c.]
2. (transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone) [from 16th c.]
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia: or, Buried Alive: A Novel, London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN; republished in The Avignon Quintet, London: Faber, published 1992, ?ISBN, page 358:

     To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.

3. (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. [from 16th c.]
4. (intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way. [from 16th c.]

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English quayle, quaile, quaille, from Anglo-Norman quaille, from Late Latin quaccola (“quail”).

Noun

quail (plural quails or quail)

1. Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
   • 1954, Wildlife Review (issues 75-83, page 44)

     Quail require little water, so there is no point to putting in a guzzler if there is any permanent water within travel range.

2. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
3. (obsolete) A prostitute, so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• partridge

Etymology 3

From Middle English quaylen, qwaylen, from Old French coaillier, from Latin co?gul?re. Doublet of coagulate.

Verb

quail (third-person singular simple present quails, present participle quailing, simple past and past participle quailed)

1. (obsolete) To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.

Anagrams

• quali

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