dudgeons

“Your words, being translated from the clapper-dudgeons to plain English, do signify that it is not very inexpedient that I marry, and that I should not care for being a cuckold.”

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

“I watched them gloomily, in high dudgeons, though 'twas my own fault, and I did not even get an opportunity of bidding her farewell.”

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow

“Let such treachours and clapper-dudgeons (albeit I value not their leasing a bagadine) venture it at their peril.”

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...

“Clapper-dudgeons, male and female, who infested the outskirts of the Old”

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...

“Your words, being translated from the clapper-dudgeons to plain English, do signify that it is not very inexpedient that I marry, and that I should not care for being”

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3

“But this time, I’m in the fortunate position of already knowing and loving and potentially endlessly blathering about today’s subject, to prevent us all from hitting the high mile dudgeons over these recently mentioned desultory obsessions.”

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