Meaning dudgeon
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dudgeon1570s, 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 [..]
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dudgeon a dagger.
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dudgeon(n) a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon')
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dudgeonThe handle of a dagger, at one time made of box-wood root, called “dudgeon-wood;” a dagger with such a handle. Shakespeare does not say, “and on the blade o’ the du [..]
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dudgeona dagger
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dudgeon
(obsolete) A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree.
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