Dudgeon

['dʌdʒ(ə)n] or ['dʌdʒən]

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

Editor: Yvonne--From WordNet

(n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.

(n.) The haft of a dagger.

(n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.

(n.) Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.

(a.) Homely; rude; coarse.

Typist: Robbie

n. Anger, resentment, indignation, ire, malice, ill-will.

Checker: Truman

SYN:Indignation, spleen, resentment, umbrage

ANT:Complacency, contentment, serenity, satisfaction

Edited by Carlos

n. resentment: grudge.

n. the haft of a dagger: a small dagger.

Inputed by Cole

This so intensifies his dudgeon that for five minutes he is in an ill humour. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
And slamming the door in Meg's face, Aunt March drove off in high dudgeon. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
There she sat plunged in sullen dudgeon, the gloomiest speculations on the depths of man's ingratitude absorbing her thoughts. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Inputed by Gretchen