dudgeon

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The South-Carolinian retreated in dudgeon, and Gurowski, chuckling, returned to his book or his paper.

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  1. noun A sullen, angry, or indignant humor: "Slamming the door in Meg's face, Aunt March drove off in high dudgeon” (Louisa May Alcott).
  2. noun Obsolete A kind of wood used in making knife handles.
  3. noun Archaic A dagger with a hilt made of this wood.
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  • In such high dudgeon was the fierce Tyrant of Città di Castello that he would not go to pay his court to Louis, and was still the more angry to hear of the warm welcome accorded in Milan to the Cardinal Orsini. —  The Life of Cesare Borgia
  • Lord Uppington and his sister had departed in high dudgeon, the former having been informed that his betrothal to Lady Thelma must regrettably be considered at an end. —  Mary Balogh - Daring Masquerade.html
  • In high dudgeon, and with a last malevolent glare at Diana. —  TheFrenchCount’sPregnantBride
  • In the end the marquess had returned home in high dudgeon, and a frightened Jessica had taken up residence with some friends while the local squire's wife graciously agreed to help her find a situation. —  Mary Balogh Ungrateful Governess
  • Between the personal contradictions and the abysmal record as mayor and governor, Republicans and their media cronies would be in high dudgeon is the Democrats had named someone with a Change the subject of course. —  Massachusetts Liberal
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  1. Origin unknown.
  2. Middle English dogeon, possibly from Anglo-Norman.

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  1. Early modern English also dudgen, dudgin, Scots dugeon; from Middle English dojoun, dojon, dogon (as a noun: see def. 3 and quot.); perhaps, through an unrecorded Old French *dojon, *dogon, diminutive of Old French (and F.) douve = Provencal Catalan doga = Italian doga, dial. dova (Middle Latin doga), a stave (of a hogshead or other cask), from Middle Dutch duyghe, Dutch duig = Middle High German dūge, G. daube, a stave; further origin unknown.
  2. By apheresis from the orig. form endugine, apparently from W. *endygen, from en-, an enhancing prefix, + dygen, malice, resentment. Cf. dychan, a jeer, dygas, hatred, Cornish duchan, duwhan, grief, sorrow.
  3. Origin uncertain; Middle English doron, explained by L. degener, degenerate, worthless, occurs in “Prompt. Parv.” (p. 125) in the alphabetical place of and apparently intended for *dogon, *doion, but another manuscript has in the same place “doion, dogenu” (p. 436), which seems to refer to dudgeon, the hilt of a dagger: see dudgeon.
 

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