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Definition of Corn dodger
1. Noun. Small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corn Dodger
Literary usage of Corn dodger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, from by John L Smith (1905)
"The guards on post wanted to know whether we had any good Yankee smoke-pipes;
they said they would give us a corn-dodger for a smoke-pipe. ..."
2. History of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers: Corn Exchange Regiment, from by John L. Smith (1905)
"The guards on post wanted to know whether we had any good Yankee smoke-pipes;
they said they would give us a corn-dodger for a smoke-pipe. ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Corn-Dodger. A kind of cake made of Indian corn, and baked very hard. It is
sometimes simply called dodger (which see). Much used in the South. ..."
4. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1896)
"... shortened dodger," in which the meal is made up with lard, or grease of some
kind. Our "crackling bread" is a corn-dodger made up with cracklings. ..."
5. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1869)
"Another kind of corn is corn dodger. The way it is made is very simple, ...
In that way you will find out what a corn dodger is. CHARACTER. ..."
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