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dudgeon
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, duggin , of unknown origin. One suggestion is Italian aduggiare "to overshadow," giving it the same sense development as umbrage . No clear connection to earlier dudgeon (late 14c.), a kind of wood used for knife handles, which is perhaps from a ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES in high dudgeon ▪ I was just so furious that I swept out in high dudgeon. ▪ The kuei will usually give up and leave a house in high dudgeon.
Wikipedia
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Dudgeon was an American steam automobile company active in the middle of the 19th century. In 1855, inventor Richard Dudgeon astounded New Yorkers by driving from his home to his place of business in a steam carriage. The noise and vibration generated by ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') [syn: high dudgeon ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dudgeon \Dudg"eon\, a. Homely; rude; coarse. [Obs.] By my troth, though I am plain and dudgeon, I would not be an ass. --Beau. & Fl.
Usage examples of dudgeon.
Krubi was piqued, and she retired to the gunyah, and there beat her breasts in dudgeon.
Fleurry stood outside, ranting in high dudgeon, but the distance muffled his words.
The black guard of the Shereef of Wazzan had gone off before him, chuckling and grinning in their disgust, and behind him his own little company of soldiers, guides, muleteers, and tentmen, who, like himself, had neither slept nor eaten, were dragging along in dudgeon.
It teaches them that the taboos which surround them, however absurd at bottom, nevertheless penalize their courage and curiosity with unescapable dudgeon, and so they become partisans of the existing order, and, per corollary, of the existing ethic.
One of the best thrusts in all the Shavian fencing matches is that which occurs when Richard Dudgeon, condemned to be hanged, asks rhetorically why he cannot be shot like a soldier.
The truth is said to be that when Sir Leicester came down to Lincolnshire for good, Mr. Boythorn showed a manifest desire to abandon his right of way and do whatever Sir Leicester would, which Sir Leicester, conceiving to be a condescension to his illness or misfortune, took in such high dudgeon, and was so magnificently aggrieved by, that Mr.
With that great discovery Madame Quinson burst into my room in high dudgeon.
The prehistoric man, in a dudgeon, threw rocks at Habeas, after which he went back to camouflaging himself in the sand again.
Came to the Belmont track in the highest of dudgeons one afternoon and led Kaspar righteously home.
If Kerthin was working up to one of her dudgeons, he wasn’t going to help her.
Besides the Gilberts were Dudley Lawton and his father, Hata, the Pandit, the Swami, and the Guru - the latter four persons in high dudgeon at being deprived of the lucrative profits of a Sunday night.
A friend of mine in Boulder, way back in '69, knew a guy who'd known Dick in Santa Venetia, California, and Dick had given this fella a Xerox of the typescript of The Doctor in High Dudgeon.