corn-dodger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   historical US: a small cake or dumpling made from cornmeal, baked, fried, or cooked among hot ashes

   They ate cold corn-dodgers with pork and buttermilk.

A compound of corn + dodger. The reason for dodger is uncertain, but the name has been used in the United States since the nineteenth century for a compact cornmeal cake or dumpling cooked by several rustic methods.

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