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Definition of Dudgeons
1. dudgeon [n] - See also: dudgeon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dudgeons
Literary usage of Dudgeons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"See in their rags then, dancing for your sports, Our clapper-dudgeons, and their
walking morts. that of to flatter without an instance : only marking it as ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"... in 'dudgeons' (1893), Poppy Janaway in •My Friend the Prince' (1897), Muriel
iu • The Second in Command' (1900), ..."
3. Shakspere's England; or, Sketches of our social history in the reign of by George Walter Thornbury, Walter Thornbury (1856)
"Maun- derers and Clapper dudgeons. — Haunts and Festivals. — Gipsy Gangs.
— Priests and Kings. — Jugglers. — Oaths and Laws. — Language and Songs. ..."
4. The Commonwealth Law Reports: Cases Determined in the High Court of by Australia High Court (1905)
"22, on the termination of the agreement the dudgeons were to be entitled to a
one-half ... The dudgeons were not permitted to allow any person to enter the ..."
5. Three Plays for Puritans by Bernard Shaw (1906)
"To the eye of the eighteenth century New Englander, it is much grander than the
plain farmhouse of the dudgeons; but it is so plain itself that a modern ..."
6. The Devil's Disciple: A Melodrama by Bernard Shaw (1906)
"... grander than the plain farmhouse of the dudgeons; but it is so plain itself
that a modern house agent would let both at about the same rent. ..."
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