dudgen
dudgen noun: something worthless; trash.
Noun
dudgen
- Something worthless; trash.
- […] whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches […]1815 Sir Egerton Brydges, Archaica: Harvey's Four letters, and sonnets, touching Robert Greene; Pierce's supererogation; [and] New letter of notable contents. Brathwaite's Essays upon the five...
Adjective
dudgen (comparative more dudgen, superlative most dudgen)
- Contemptible.
- A melancholy boddy is not the kindest nurse for a chearely minde, (the joviall complexion is soverainly beholding to nature,) but I know not a finer transformation in Ovid then the Metamorphosis of dudgen earnest into sport; of harsh sower into sweet; of losse into gaine; or reproch into credit; of...1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, page 21
- Gentlemen (according to the laudable custome) I am to court you with a few premisses considered: but a number of you there bee, who consider neigher premisses nor conclusion, but piteouslie torment Title Pages on euerie poast: neuer readidng farther of anie Booke, than Imprinted by Simeon such a...1594, Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night
Forms of dudgen
| comparative | more dudgen |
|---|---|
| superlative | most dudgen |
Origin of dudgen
Unknown. Compare dudgeon.
Questions about dudgen
- What does dudgen mean?
- Dudgen means something worthless; trash.
- What part of speech is dudgen?
- Dudgen can be a noun or an adjective.
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