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corn dodger

/kawrn-doj-er/US // ˈkɔrn ˌdɒdʒ ər //

躲避玉米的人,躲避玉米者,躲避玉米人,躲避玉米机

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : South Midland and Southern U.S. a small, usually oval cake made of cornmeal batter and baked or fried in a skillet.
    • : Chiefly South Atlantic States and Eastern Virginia. a boiled dumpling made of cornmeal.

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Examples

  • For the uninitiated, the film is set on a future Earth whose crops (save corn) have been wiped out by a mysterious blight.

  • I certainly found it very helpful when I realized we were going to have to grow our own corn.

  • That must have been some corn for her to remember it 50 years later!

  • Hilbert was a flashy man who helicoptered five miles daily over corn fields to and from the office.

  • He is perfectly capable of introducing a bill requiring all cars to run on corn stalks instead of gasoline.

  • The man with the automobile, the corn-cure, and the baby grew to be legendary in the villages of Provence.

  • I should judge that a peck of corn is about the average product of a day's work through all this region.

  • The Vine appears at intervals, but is not general through this region: Indian Corn is also rare, and appears in small patches.

  • Then, kindly and gently, the boy took Squinty over to the place where the corn crib was built on to the barn.

  • If he has made up his mind that I'm stealing corn nothing I could say would change his opinion.