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dodger
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dodger
1. Nautical a canvas shelter, mounted on a ship's bridge or over the companionway of a sailing yacht to protect the helmsman from bad weather
2. Archaic US and Austral a handbill


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As an eccentric historian, Ian McKellan, in full Gandolf mode, coasts--at first effectively but with diminishing returns--on his pawky manner and slyboots smile.
EMERSON TELLS US that truth is "such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.
Some of the characters have appeared, at least briefly, in some of his other books, while some are at least reminiscent of earlier characters; for example, Slyboots Browne who recalls the entrepreneurial trickster Martin Bear Charme in Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent.
 
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