1
obsolete
: a wood used especially for dagger hilts
2
a
archaic
: a dagger with a handle of dudgeon
b
obsolete
: a haft made of dudgeon
: a fit or state of indignation
—often used in the phrase in high dudgeon
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Examples of dudgeon in a Sentence
Noun (2)
stomped off in high dudgeon after having his honor questioned
Recent Examples on the Web
Armond White, National Review, 18 Sep. 2024
Truth Social, meanwhile, is its own, strange creature: a social media platform born out of Donald Trump’s dudgeon at being banned from Facebook and Twitter due to his posts on those platforms.
—Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2024
But some Angelenos took their picket signs and their dudgeon to City Hall.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
His appeal lies in the contrast between this tone of absolute sincerity, which often escalates into high dudgeon, and the nature of his obsessions, which run toward jarring combinations of the stupefyingly mundane and the elaborately scatological.
—Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 17 June 2022
Dederer is at her best on such complicities—her own fondness for assholes, our cultural fascination with monsters—and less convincing when in a dudgeon, or deploying her feelings and experiences as intellectual credentials.
—Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
The antics of anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers — whipped into high dudgeon by right-wing politicians who generally wear masks and are fully vaccinated — set off progressives, some of whose worst tendencies are sneering, condescension and sanctimoniousness.
—Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2021
Radek Sikorski was in high dudgeon, and rightly so.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Oct. 2021
On Thursday, the asymmetrical reaction from the two parties — with Democrats in high dudgeon and Republicans relatively muted — hinted at how the two sides may approach the issue in the midterm campaign.
—Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
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Noun
Instead, the high dudgeon now heard in Tennant’s fey voice gives too much weight to the smugness of group-thinkers.
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“Dudgeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dudgeon. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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