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Dudgeon means ill-humor
Robert R. Piper
Berkeley
Thursday October 25, 2001
Editor:
In MY old Webster’s, dudgeon is listed twice. First come three variations involving boxwood dagger handles. The second reads as follows: aggrieved or angered feeling; ill humor; resentment.
High dudgeon, one has to assume, is associated with the second meaning.
Robert R. Piper
Berkeley
