Definitions for dudgeon

dudgeon dudg·eon

Spelling: [duhj-uh n]
IPA: /ˈdʌdʒ ən/

Dudgeon is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in dudgeon (ddegnou).

Definitions for dudgeon

noun

  1. a feeling of offense or resentment; anger:
  2. a kind of wood used especially for the handles of knives, daggers, etc.
  3. a handle or hilt made of this wood.
  4. a dagger having such a hilt.

Origin of dudgeon

First recorded in 1565-75; origin uncertain

Examples for dudgeon

John dudgeon was there, and Mrs. John, and several offshoots of the dudgeon tree.

The name of the little hucksters across the way was dudgeon.

dudgeon had spoken, and no power on earth would change him from his purpose.

Meanwhile, the housekeeper, on leaving the library, had gone to her own room in dudgeon.

"I made that tea for myself, Mr. dudgeon," Durham exclaimed.

And he went off in dudgeon, leaving me very lonely and miserable.

Indirectly, he was the pivot on which the course of dudgeon's life turned from the normal.

Southey supplies us with an illustration of the moon in a fit of dudgeon.

But,” she continued after a pause, “which Mr. dudgeon is it—the one with a wife, or the one without?

He retired at length in dudgeon, and Stephen called on Paul for a song.

Word Value for dudgeon
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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