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Dudgeon
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 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 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 a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase ‘in high dudgeon’) wordnet
- 4 A hilt made of this wood. obsolete
"And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood"
- 5 A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt. archaic
Etymology
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.
From Middle English dogeon, apparently from Anglo-Norman or Middle French, but the ultimate origin is obscure. Compare French douve (“stave”).
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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