Usually means: Anger or resentment; high indignation.
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  1. dudgeon: Merriam-Webster
  2. dudgeon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dudgeon, dudgeon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dudgeon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dudgeon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dudgeon, dudgeon: Wordnik
  7. dudgeon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dudgeon, dudgeon: Wiktionary
  9. dudgeon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dudgeon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dudgeon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dudgeon, dudgeon: Dictionary.com
  13. dudgeon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Dudgeon (steam automobile company), Dudgeon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dudgeon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dudgeon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dudgeon: Rhymezone
  18. Dudgeon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dudgeon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Dudgeon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. dudgeon: FreeDictionary.org
  22. dudgeon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. dudgeon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Dudgeon: The Word Detective
  25. dudgeon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. dudgeon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dudgeon: Legal dictionary

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  1. dudgeon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dudgeon: A Word A Day
  2. dudgeon: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Dudgeon)

noun:  A feeling of anger or resentment, especially haughty indignation.
noun:  (obsolete) A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree.
noun:  (obsolete) A hilt made of this wood.
noun:  (archaic) A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt.
noun:  A surname.

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