Dodgy

Definition: Dodgy

Dodgy

Adjective

1. Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker.

2. Marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dodgy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)

Computing

Slang

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

Synonyms: Dodgy

The Marquis de Carabas is a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur. (NeverWhere; writing credit: Neil Gaiman; Lenny Henry)

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

Beginning with "dodgy": dodgy-looking, dodgy-style.

Ending with "dodgy": slightly-dodgy.

Albanian

i dyshimtë (dingy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, left handed, misgiving, moot, precarious, problematic, queer, suspect, suspicious, unassured, uncertain, unreliable, wildcat). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محايل, ‏متملص (elusive, evasive), ‏مراوغ (deceitful, devious, elusive, evasive, shifting, shifty, wily). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хитър (acute, arch, artful, calculating, catty, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, designing, disingenuous, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, long-headed, parlous, patent, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sleek, slim, sly, smart, supple, wary, wide, wily, wordly-wise), труден (arduous, awkward, complex, difficile, difficult, formidable, heavy, knotty, laborious, lively, painful, perplexed, perplexing, pick-and-shovel, rocky, sore, spiny, stroppy, taxing, thorny, ticklish, tight, tough, tricky, troublesome, uphill, warm), нечестен (cammed, crooked, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, faithless, false, ignominious, low down, screwy, twisty, unfair, wildcat), завързан (tied), ловък (able, adroit, agile, artful, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, natty, neat, neat-handed, peart, politic, pretty, shrewd, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tricksy, tricky, wary, whizbang), повратлив (light-heeled). (various references)

Chinese 

躲躲闪闪. (various references)

Czech

riskantní (adventurous, chancy, dangerous, Dicey, Dickey, hazardous, precarious, risky, touch and go, unsound), prohnaný (arrant, cannie, canny, cunning, devious, foxy), prekérní (delicate, Dicey), pochybný (devious, disreputable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, murky, problematical, questionable, seamy, seedy, shady, specious, suspect, unsavory), obtížný (difficile, difficult, hard, heavy, nagging, onerous, painful, tricky, troublesome), ošemetný (awkward, delicate). (various references)

French

rusé, épineux. (various references)

German

windig (blowy, breezy, drafty, dubious, maneuverable, windily, windy), vertrackt (awkward, complicated, tricky), verdächtig (fishy, furtively, guiltily, queer, shiftily, suspicious, suspicious-looking, suspiciously), unzuverlässig (disaffectedly, faithless, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unreliably, unsound, unsure, untrustworthy), unstet (changeable, choppy, erratic, fickle, inconstant, migrant, restless, unsettled, unsteady, vagabond, vagrant, vagrantly), riskant (bold, chancy, dangerous, dicey, hazardous, precarious, risky, touchy, venturous, wildcat). (various references)

Hungarian

fortélyos (artful, colubrine, crafted, crafty, cunning, fly, foxy, guileful, pawky, vulpine, wily), agyafúrt (artful, coony, cute, foxy, leery, out and out, pawky, sharp, shrewd, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily). (various references)

Italian

ingannevole (crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, elusive, false, misleading, tricky). (various references)

Manx

cluigagh (catchy, crafty, deceitful, treacherous, tricky, wily). (various references)

Pig Latin

odgyday.(various references)

Portuguese

finório (fly, pawky, prick-eared), espertalhão (corndodger, dodger, fly, fox, leery, slicker, smart). (various references)

Russian 

нечестный (cammed, crooked, dirty, dishemest, dishonest, foul, mean, rascally, snide, unfair), ловкий (adept, adroit, artful, clean, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, feat, habile, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, light-handed, natty, neat, neat-handed, politic, sailorly, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tactical, tricky), плутоватый (scampish), изворотливый (shifty). (various references)

Spanish

astuto (artful, astute, cannie, canny, clever, colic, crafty, cunning, deep, devious, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, malicious, mischievous, nasty, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, sleeky, slick, sly, smart, tricky, vicious, wide, wily, worldly wise). (various references)

Swedish

lurig, listig (artful, clever, crafty, cunning, deep, sharp, shifty, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily), krånglig (awkward, tortuous, troublesome), knepig (catchy, clever, cunning, hairy, knotty, sly, smart, ticklish, tricky). (various references)

Turkish

sağlıksız (ill, insalubrious, insanitary, shaky, sickly, unhealthy, unsanitary, unsound, unwholesome), riskli (adventurous, chancy, dangerous, Dicey, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, not healthy, precarious, risky, touch and go, unsure, venturesome, wildcat), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), hinoğlu hin (wise guy), şüpheli (chancy, contestable, creaky, debatable, discredited, disputable, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, equivocal, fishy, funny, funny peculiar, hazardous, indecisive, indefinable, murky, nebulous, precarious, problematic, problematical, sceptical, screwy, shadowy, shady, shaky, skeptical, speculative, suspect, suspenseful, suspicious, umbrageous, uncertain, unconvincing), anasının gözü (downy, smart), çok tehlikeli. (various references)

Ukrainian

спритний (adroit, agile, alert, arch, artful, canny, cunning, deft, dexterous, fly, handy, light fingered, light-handed, natty, nifty, nimble, nimble footed, nimble-fingered, pert, politic, practical, shuffling, slick, tactical, whipping, wide awake, zippy), шахраюватий (roguish, scampish), дотепний (attic, brainy, cute, facetious, ingenious, jocular, nimble, nimble-witted, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, spiritual, waggish, witty). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tinh ranh (astute), lắm mưu; khéo lẩn tránh, láu cá (crafty, cunning, devious, foxlike, leery, tricksy, tricky), khéo thoái thác. (various references)

Misspellings

"Dodgy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bodgy, didg, doddy, dodgey, dodly, Dody, Dogdyke, dogey, dongy, doodgy, doody, Doudy, Hodgy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dogy.

-2 letters: dog, god, goy, odd, yod.

-3 letters: do, go, od, oy, yo.

+2 letters: dodgery.

+3 letters: doggedly, dogsbody.

+4 letters: bodyguard.

+5 letters: amygdaloid, bodyguards, dendrology, ploddingly.