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Dudgeon   /dˈədʒən/   Listen
noun
Dudgeon  n.  
1.
The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.
2.
The haft of a dagger.
3.
A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.


Dudgeon  n.  Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure. "I drink it to thee in dudgeon and hostility." "Sir T. Scott."


adjective
Dudgeon  adj.  Homely; rude; coarse. (Obs.) "By my troth, though I am plain and dudgeon, I would not be an ass."





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"Dudgeon" Quotes from Famous Books



... great ambassador who forgot what was due to himself. These sordid disputes are of no interest now to anybody, and we need only say that after a period of eighteen months passed in uncongenial company, Rousseau parted from his count in extreme dudgeon, and the diplomatic career which he had promised to himself came to the same close as various other careers had ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... Good Justice Dudgeon-haft, and crab-tree face, With bills and staues had scar'd hir from the place; And now she was compel'd, for Sanctuarie, To flye unto a house of ...
— The Choise of Valentines - Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo • Thomas Nash
... 13th the Atholl men were kept at their spade-work, and Lord George in dudgeon resigned his command (November 14), but at night Carlisle surrendered, Murray and Perth negotiating. Lord George expressed his anger and jealousy to his brother, Tullibardine, but Perth resigned his command to pacify his rival. Wade feebly tried to cross country, failed, and went back to Newcastle. ...
— A Short History of Scotland • Andrew Lang
... of their acquisition. Though much restoration was done in the middle of last century the general character of the whole was not interfered with. Then it was that the stained glass was put in—to replace that which had presumably been destroyed during the times "when civil dudgeon first grew high and men fell out they knew not why"—and we may well be grateful that the taste displayed in doing so was on the whole so well displayed, though the garish blue of the western window above the Minstrels' Gallery is perhaps an ...
— Hampton Court • Walter Jerrold
... How sincerely glad they were, and how pleasantly they talked; when lo! an unhappy reference to the "bishopric of Titus" gradually abated the fervor of their charity, and inflamed that of their zeal, even till they at last separated in mutual dudgeon, and sat glowering at each other in their distant corners with looks in which the "Episcopalian" and "Presbyterian" were much more evident than the "Christian";—and so they persevered till the sudden summons to them and their fellow-prisoners, to prepare ...
— The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic • Henry Rogers


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