Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dudgeon"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dudgeon \Dudg"eon\, n.
1. The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were
made. --Gerarde (1597).
2. The haft of a dagger. --Shak.
3. A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger. --Hudibras.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dudgeon
n : a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the
phrase "in high dudgeon") [syn: {high dudgeon}]
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