high dudgeon

1. 1.

   a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon')

   Synonymsdudgeon

   Broaderindignation

Questions about high dudgeon

What does high dudgeon mean?

high dudgeon means "a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon')".

What is another word for high dudgeon?

Close synonyms include dudgeon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is high dudgeon a common word?

high dudgeon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.