in high dudgeon

in high dudgeon

English

Adjective

in high dudgeon (not comparable)

1. Indignant and enraged.
   • All gentle folks who owe a grudge, by John Keats

     “All gentle folks who owe a grudge
     To any living thing,
     Open your ears and stay your trudge
     Whilst I in dudgeon sing.”

   • 1849, Mardi, and a Voyage Thither, by Herman Melville, Volume I, Chapter XC, Rare Sport At Ohonoo

     “Vivo, one of the genii, built a ladder of mountains whereby to go up and go down. And of this ladder, the island of Ohonoo was the base. But wandering here and there, incognito in a vapor, so much wickedness did Vivo spy out, that in high dudgeon he hurried up his ladder, knocking the mountains from under him as he went. These here and there fell into the lagoon, forming many isles, now green and luxuriant; which, with those sprouting from seeds dropped by a bird from the moon, comprise all the groups in the reef.”

   • 2019 March 27, Ms Angela Eagle (Wallasey) (Lab), “EU Exit Day Amendment”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons)‎, column 446:

     We have seen today elements of the Conservative party in high dungeon, or dudgeon—[Interruption.] Maybe they should be in the high dungeon. We have seen them in high dudgeon about the fact that the Minister has brought a statutory instrument before us today to take away the cliff edge they were relying on plunging this country over in order to get the kind of clean break, […]

Prepositional phrase

in high dudgeon

1. (idiomatic) Resentfully or furiously.
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1

     “When civil dudgeon first grew high, \\ And men fell out, they knew not why; \\ When hard words, jealousies, and fears, \\ Set folks together by the ears..”

Translations

resentfully, furiously

Russian: в глубо́ком возмуще́нии (v glubókom vozmuščénii)