Dudgeon

//ˈdʌd͡ʒən// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A feeling of anger or resentment, especially haughty indignation. uncountable

    "All gentle folks who owe a grudge / To any living thing, / Open your ears and stay your trudge / Whilst I in dudgeon sing."

  2. 2
    A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree. obsolete

    "Turners and Cutlers, if I mistake not the matter, doe call this wood Dudgeon, wherewith they make Dudgeon hafted daggers."

  3. 3
    a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase ‘in high dudgeon’) wordnet
  4. 4
    A hilt made of this wood. obsolete

    "And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood"

  5. 5
    A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt. archaic

Etymology

Etymology 1

Uncertain: * Perhaps the same as Etymology 2, below * Perhaps from Welsh dygen (“anger, grudge”) (from dy- + cwyn (“complaint”)), though the OED rejects this. * Possibly from dudgen (“trash, something worthless”). * Possibly borrowed from Italian aduggiare (“to overshadow”), similar to the semantic development of umbrage.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dogeon, apparently from Anglo-Norman or Middle French, but the ultimate origin is obscure. Compare French douve (“stave”).

Etymology 3

English and Scottish surname, perhaps related to the noun dudgeon (sense 1) (“kind of wood used in a hilt”). Or, from a diminutive of Dodge.

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