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dudgeon
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dudgeon \Dudg"eon\, n.
The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.
--Gerarde (1597).The haft of a dagger.
--Shak.A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.
--Hudibras.
Dudgeon \Dudg"eon\, n. [W. dygen anger, grudge.] Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.
I drink it to thee in dudgeon and hostility.
Sir T. Scott.
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.
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 French word.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete English) A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree. 2 (context obsolete English) A hilt made of this wood. 3 (context archaic English) A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt. Etymology 2
n. A feeling of anger or resentment (usually only in set terms, below).
WordNet
n. a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') [syn: high dudgeon]
Wikipedia
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 the Red Devil Steamer frightened horses so badly that city authorities confined it to one street.
After losing the original in a fire, Dudgeon constructed a second steamer in 1866. After encountering more opposition to the vehicle, he moved his family, and the steam carriage, to Long Island to escape city officials. Here he and his carriage became a familiar site, often with a young boy running ahead to warn travelers of the danger that followed.
Dudgeon ran the steam carriage many hundreds of miles and once covered a mile in under two minutes. Although the inventor claimed the carriage could carry 10 people at 14 m.p.h. on one barrel of anthracite coal, it was too far ahead of its time and failed to gain popular favor.
Dudgeon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Cecil Dudgeon, politician
- Gus Dudgeon, record producer
- James Dudgeon, footballer
- Joe Dudgeon, English footballer
- John Dudgeon, physician
- Neil Dudgeon, actor
- Richard Dudgeon, mechanic
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.