DODGERY

  

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DODGERY

Definition: DODGERY

DODGERY

Noun

1. Trickery; artifice.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Dodgery \Dodg"er*y\, noun. trickery; artifice. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translation: DODGERY

Language Translations for "DODGERY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

хитрина (catch, contrivance, craft, craftiness, deceit, expedient, fetch, foxiness, legerdemain, shift, trickery, wheeze, wile, wiliness), извъртане (chicane, dodge, equivocation, evasion, indirection, jugglery, legerdemain, quibble, salvo, shuffle, taradiddle, tergiversation, torsion, twist). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

dõzsöltség. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

odgeryday

   

Portuguese

  

subterfúgio (evasion, feint, mask, quibble, refuge, salvo, shuffle, subterfuge, trick, trickery), plano (cadre, champaign, concoction, design, designing, device, diagram, dodge, draught, even, frame, framing, game, groundwork, idea, layout, level, line, plain, plan, plane, project, proposition, scheme, smattering, smooth, surface, system), método (dodge, manner, method, mode, orderliness, process, scheme, system, way), habilidade (ability, accomplishments, acquaintance, acquirement, address, adroitness, art, asset, cleverness, come-off, competence, competency, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, dexterity, diplomacy, dodge, facility, genius, gimmick, hand, ingenuity, knack, know-how, neatness, put-off, savvy, science, shift, skill, tact, trick), expediente (business hours, device, dodge, expedient, health-resort, knack, makeshift, means, remedy, resort, resourcefulness, resources, shift), evasiva (ambages, dodge, elusion, evasion, prevarication, quibble, quirk, salvo, shuffle, subterfuge, tergiversation). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

înşelãtorie (cunning, deception, delusion, do, double dealing, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, guile, guilefulness, hanky panky, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, racket, ramp, take in). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

увертка (dodge, elusion, evasion, quip, stall, subterfuge, tergiversation), плутовство (knavery). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vrdanje (double dealing, equivocation, jink, subterfuge, tergiversation, wriggle). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gandulería (idleness). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

undanflykt (evasion, excuse, pretext, prevarication, subterfuge, tergiversation). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

крутійство (cavil, chicane, chicanery, pettifoggery). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DODGERY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-o-r-y"

-1 letter: dodger.

-2 letters: dodge, dodgy, dogey, gored, grody, gyred, odder.

-3 letters: doer, doge, dogy, dore, dory, dreg, dyed, dyer, eddo, eddy, edgy, ergo, goer, gore, gory, grey, gyre, gyro, ogre, orgy, oyer, redd, redo, rode, yore.

-4 letters: dey, doe, dog, dor, dry, dye, ego, erg, ged, gey, god, gor, goy, odd, ode, ore, red, reg.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-g-o-r-y"
 

+3 letters: dendrology.

 

+5 letters: hydrogenated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DODGERY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 4F 44 47 45 52 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ---    -..    --.    .    .-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001111 01000100 01000111 01000101 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#68 &#71 &#69 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0044 0047 0045 0052 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38493841395259

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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