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English
Adjective
in high dudgeon (not comparable)
- Indignant and enraged.
1849, Herman Melville, chapter XC, in Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. , volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, , →OCLC, page 314:“ […] 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. […] ”
2019 March 27, Ms Angela Eagle (Wallasey) (Lab), “EU Exit Day Amendment”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 446: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 […]
Prepositional phrase
in high dudgeon
- (idiomatic) Resentfully or furiously, with indignation or pomposity.
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1
- “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..”
- 1987, Bernard MacLaverty, short story. "The Drapery Man" (published in The Great Profumo and Other Stories, Jonathan Cape, 1987) - p.35:
- He puts on a querulous voice and says, "Question. What particular altitude is dudgeon inevitably? Answer. High." He laughs and slaps his knees.
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