DUDGEON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dudgeon mean? 

• DUDGEON (noun)
  The noun DUDGEON has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase 'in high dudgeon')

  Familiarity information: DUDGEON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUDGEON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase 'in high dudgeon')

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

dudgeon; high dudgeon

Hypernyms ("dudgeon" is a kind of...):

indignation; outrage (a feeling of righteous anger)

 Context examples 

And slamming the door in Meg's face, Aunt March drove off in high dudgeon.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The jongleur had put down his harp in high dudgeon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From less to more, I worked him up to considerable irritation; then, after he had retired, in dudgeon, quite to the other end of the room, I got up, and saying, I wish you good-night, sir, in my natural and wonted respectful manner, I slipped out by the side-door and got away.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I fancied she was jealous even of the saucepan on it; and I have reason to know that she took its impressment into the service of boiling my egg and broiling my bacon, in dudgeon; for I saw her, with my own discomfited eyes, shake her fist at me once, when those culinary operations were going on, and no one else was looking.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He fled at once, and the minute it was well, "Up with the bonnets of bonnie Dundee," she slipped away to return no more till the young gentleman departed in high dudgeon.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)