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- adv. idiomatic resentfully or furiously
Examples
“The worthy colonel, without running his eye over the novel document, signed it, and promised to deliver to his chief, Colonel Pearson, who was in high dudgeon when he saw that Scoville had approved the requisition.”
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,
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Quaint Turns of Phrase
cut of his jib, do the square thi..., laws-a-massy, saints preserve us, napoo finny, pregnant pause, top o' the mornin', no spring chicken, worth each other'..., in high dudgeon, take umbrage, gives me the pip and 236 more...
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Idioms and Phrases
hack someone off, scrape the bottom..., haul over the coals, rake over the coals, have a thin time, down one's alley, up one's alley, shoot the bull, bite the bullet, up the creek, cudgel one' brains, plain as a pikestaff and 156 more...
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