Skip to content
Vinony

dudgeon

noun

No English definition recorded for this entry.

L319848 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈdʌd͡ʒən/

name

Etymology: English and Scottish surname, perhaps related to the noun dudgeon (sense 1) (“kind of wood used in a hilt”). Or, from a diminutive of Dodge.

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English dogeon, apparently from Anglo-Norman or Middle French, but the ultimate origin is obscure. Compare French douve (“stave”).

  1. A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree.

    “Turners and Cutlers, if I mistake not the matter, doe call this wood Dudgeon, wherewith they make Dudgeon hafted daggers.”

  2. A hilt made of this wood.

    “And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood”

  3. A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt.