dudgeon /ˈdʌd͡ʒən/noun 4forms 1phrases 1 noun4 •A feeling of anger or resentment, especially haughty indignation.All gentle folks who owe a grudge / To any living thing, / Open your ears and stay your trudge / Whilst I in dudgeon sing. — 1818 •(no longer used) A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt. •(no longer used) A hilt made of this wood.And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood — 1606 •(no longer used) A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree.Turners and Cutlers, if I mistake not the matter, doe call this wood Dudgeon, wherewith they make Dudgeon hafted daggers. — 1597 formsdudgeons Phrases with dudgeon in high dudgeonIndignant and enraged.