dudgeons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

XXII | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2006