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dudgeons

dudgeons is the plural of dudgeon.

Meaning of dudgeon

Noun (1)

dudgeon (uncountable)

  1. A feeling of anger or resentment, especially haughty indignation.
    • All gentle folks who owe a grudge / To any living thing, / Open your ears and stay your trudge / Whilst I in dudgeon sing.1818, John Keats, “The Gadfly”, in Letter to Tom Keats

Noun (2)

dudgeon (plural dudgeons)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree.
    • Turners and Cutlers, if I mistake not the matter, doe call this wood Dudgeon, wherewith they make Dudgeon hafted daggers.1597, John Gerard, Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes
  2. (obsolete) A hilt made of this wood.
    • And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of bloodc. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  3. (archaic) A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt.

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Proper noun capitalized: Dudgeons

Dudgeons

  1. (plural) plural of Dudgeon

Questions about dudgeons

What is dudgeons the plural of?
Dudgeons is the plural of dudgeon.
What part of speech is dudgeons?
Dudgeons is a proper noun.

Words near dudgeons in the dictionary

  1. Dudești
  2. Dudeștii Vechi
  3. dudgen
  4. dudgeon
  5. dudgeoned
  6. dudgeons
  7. dudh-wallah
  8. dudh-wallahs
  9. Dudhatoli
  10. dudheen
  11. dudheens

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