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humdurgeon

humdurgeon is the alternative form of humdudgeon.

Meaning of humdudgeon

Noun

humdudgeon (plural humdudgeons)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) An unnecessary outcry or complaint.
  2. (Scotland, obsolete) An imaginary illness.

Questions about humdurgeon

What is humdurgeon the alternative form of?
Humdurgeon is the alternative form of humdudgeon.

Words near humdurgeon in the dictionary

  1. humdrumminess
  2. humdrumness
  3. humdrums
  4. humdudgeon
  5. humdudgeons
  6. humdurgeon
  7. Hume
  8. Hume's boobook
  9. Hume's boobooks
  10. Hume's fork
  11. Hume's guillotine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: humdurgeon (page history and authors); humdudgeon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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