English Explanatory Dictionary

scaldrum dodge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A beggar's trick of burning the body with a mixture of acids and gunpowder, so as to appear to have been injured in an accident.

Word forms

scaldrum dodge scaldrum dodges

Etymology

See dodge (“a trick”).

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