U.S. A kind of cake or bread made of the meal of Indian corn, baked very hard.
1856. Olmsted, Texas (Bartlett). The universal food of the people of Texas, both rich and poor, seems to be corn-dodger and fried bacon.
1885. ‘C. E. Craddock’ (Miss Murfree), in Harper’s Mag., Xmas No. 135/1. Madeline … was hurrying the corn-dodgers and venison steak on the table.
