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High Dudgeon

Definition: High Dudgeon

High Dudgeon

Noun

1. A feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase "in high dudgeon").

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonym: High Dudgeon

Synonym: dudgeon (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: High Dudgeon

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discontent

In high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor; glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of temper.

Resentment

Flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expression: High Dudgeon

Expression using "high dudgeon": in high dudgeon. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: High Dudgeon

Language Translations for "high dudgeon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shumë i nxehur (in high dudgeon). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏بغضب (angrily, in high dudgeon, wrathfully). (various references)

   

French

  

offensé dans sa dignité (in high dudgeon), en colère (in high dudgeon). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εξαγριωμένοσ (in high dudgeon), οργισμένος (angry, furious, in high dudgeon, irate, resentful). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

haragban (in high dudgeon), rendkívül dühösen (in high dudgeon). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ighhay udgeonday

   

Russian 

  

с глубоким возмущением (in high dudgeon), обиженный (in high dudgeon, injured, pained, resentful). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uvređen (dudgeon: in high dudgeon, insulted, piqued), kivan (dudgeon: in high dudgeon). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

enojadísimo (in high dudgeon), bien enojado (in high dudgeon). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mycket förgrymmad (in high dudgeon). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hiddetli (angry, flamboyant, furious, hot-headed, in high dudgeon, volcanic, vulcanic, wrathful, wrathy), tepesi atmış (furious, heated, in high dudgeon, madding). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

з глибоким обуренням (in high dudgeon). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: High Dudgeon

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-g-h-h-i-n-o-u"

-4 letters: dodging, dudgeon, godding, gudgeon, hedging, hounded.

-5 letters: digged, dinged, dogged, doggie, duding, dugong, dunged, edging, enough, gonged, gouged, guided, guidon, gundog, hidden, hinged, hodden, hoddin, hoeing, hogged, hoiden, honied, hugged, indued, nighed, nogged, nudged.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: High Dudgeon


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 69 67 68      44 75 64 67 65 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101001 01100111 01101000 00100000 01000100 01110101 01100100 01100111 01100101 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#32 &#68 &#117 &#100 &#103 &#101 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0067 0068      0044 0075 0064 0067 0065 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42757374238877073718180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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