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Feb. 22, 2017
dudgeon\DUHJ-uh n\noun
1. a feeling of offense or resentment; anger: We left in high dudgeon.
QuotesWe had only been married three weeks and she had already walked
out in high dudgeonfive or six times. I could never understand what I
did to put her in high dudgeon, but whatever it was I always felt
utterly to blame.
-- Larry McMurtry, All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, 1972
Origin of dudgeonDudgeon entered English in the 1560s and is of
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