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- noun Plural form of
dudgeon .
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Examples
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Your words, being translated from the clapper-dudgeons to plain English, do signify that it is not very inexpedient that I marry, and that I should not care for being a cuckold.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Your words, being translated from the clapper-dudgeons to plain English, do signify that it is not very inexpedient that I marry, and that I should not care for being a cuckold.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I watched them gloomily, in high dudgeons, though 'twas my own fault, and I did not even get an opportunity of bidding her farewell.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang
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Let such treachours and clapper-dudgeons (albeit I value not their leasing a bagadine) venture it at their peril.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Clapper-dudgeons, male and female, who infested the outskirts of the Old
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Your words, being translated from the clapper-dudgeons to plain English, do signify that it is not very inexpedient that I marry, and that I should not care for being
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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But this time, I’m in the fortunate position of already knowing and loving and potentially endlessly blathering about today’s subject, to prevent us all from hitting the high mile dudgeons over these recently mentioned desultory obsessions.
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