dudgeon

Meanings

1. A feeling of anger or resentment, especially haughty indignation.

1. A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree.
2. A hilt made of this wood.
3. A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt.

1. A surname.

Etymology

Uncertain: * Perhaps the same as Etymology 2, below * Perhaps from Welsh dygen (“anger, grudge”) (from dy- + cwyn (“complaint”)), though the OED rejects this. * Possibly from dudgen (“trash, something worthless”). * Possibly borrowed from Italian aduggiare (“to overshadow”), similar to the semantic development of umbrage.