Word.ws English Dictionary

in high dudgeon

in high dudgeon adjective: indignant and enraged.

Adjective

in high dudgeon (not comparable)

  1. Indignant and enraged.
    • “[…] But wandering here and there, incognito in a vapor, so much wickedness did Vivo spy out, that in high dudgeon he hurried up his ladder, knocking the mountains from under him as he went. […]”1849, Herman Melville, chapter XC, in Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 314
    • We have seen today elements of the Conservative party in high dungeon, or dudgeon—[Interruption.] Maybe they should be in the high dungeon. We have seen them in high dudgeon about the fact that […]2019 March 27, Ms Angela Eagle (Wallasey) (Lab), “EU Exit Day Amendment”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 446

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Resentfully or furiously, with indignation or pomposity.
    • When civil dudgeon first grew high, \ And men fell out, they knew not why; \ When hard words, jealousies, and fears, \ Set folks together by the ears..1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1
    • He puts on a querulous voice and says, "Question. What particular altitude is dudgeon inevitably? Answer. High." He laughs and slaps his knees.1987, Bernard MacLaverty, short story. "The Drapery Man" (published in The Great Profumo and Other Stories, Jonathan Cape, 1987) - p.35

in high dudgeon meaning in Malayalam

in high dudgeon in Malayalam

resentfully, indignantly, angrily
നീരസത്താടെ, അങ്ങേയറ്റത്തെ നീരസത്തോടെ, രോഷാകുലമായി, അമർഷത്തോടെ, വിരോധമായി, രുഷാ

Questions about in high dudgeon

What does in high dudgeon mean?
In high dudgeon means indignant and enraged.
What is in high dudgeon in Malayalam?
In high dudgeon in Malayalam is നീരസത്താടെ, അങ്ങേയറ്റത്തെ നീരസത്തോടെ, രോഷാകുലമായി. See In high dudgeon meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is in high dudgeon?
In high dudgeon can be an adjective or a prepositional phrase.

Words near in high dudgeon in the dictionary

  1. in heat
  2. in heaven's name
  3. in hell
  4. in hell's name
  5. in hiding
  6. in high dudgeon
  7. in high feather
  8. in high gear
  9. in hindsight
  10. in hock
  11. in honor of

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: in high dudgeon (page history and authors); in high dudgeon (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “in high dudgeon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/in_high_dudgeon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.