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n. A sullen, angry, or indignant humor: "Slamming the door in Meg's face, Aunt March drove off in high dudgeon” ( Louisa May Alcott).

n. Obsolete A kind of wood used in making knife handles.

n. Archaic A dagger with a hilt made of this wood.

n. Archaic The hilt of a dagger.

n. A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives.

n. A hilt made of this wood.

n. A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt.

n. A feeling of anger or resentment (usually only in set terms, below).

n. The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.

n. The haft of a dagger.

n. A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.

n. Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.

adj. Homely; rude; coarse.

n. A stave of a barrel or cask.

n. Wood for staves: same as dudgeon-tree.

n. Some kind of wood having a mottled grain; or the wooden hilt of a dagger, ornamented with graven lines.

n. The hilt of a dagger. See dudgeon-haft.

n. A dagger. See dudgeon-dagger.

Ornamented with graven lines; full of wavy lines; curiously veined or mottled.

n. A feeling of offense; resentmont; sullen anger; ill will; discord.

Rude; unpolished.

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

"More bloviation and high dudgeon from the White House on the reporting of the bank records data mining: Speaking at a fund-raising event in St. Louis for Senator Jim Talent, Mr. Bush made the news reports his central theme."

outrage    indignation   

in high dudgeon   

dagger    resentment    anger    displeasure    homely    rude    coarse   

bludgeon    gudgeon    trudgen   

nightglass    ricochet    fellahin    pie-tin    yellowtail    legionem    surprize    midland    narrow-bladed