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† dudgen, n. and a. Obs.
[perh. the same as dudgeon n.1: a dagger with a handle of this material being cheap and often regarded as an inferior, unreliable weapon; cf. quots. 1581 and 1590 in dudgeon n.1 3.]
A. n. ‘Poor stuff’, trash.
1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 139 The stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum that they..can invent.
B. adj.
1. Mean, poor, contemptible.
1589Nashe Almond for Parrat 5 a, We talkt euen now of a dudgen destinction from which my Bedlam brother..with the rest of those patches, striue to deriue theyr discipline disobedience. 1593Drayton Idea 427 Think'st thou, my Wit shall keepe the pack-Horse Way, That ev'ry Dudgen low Invention goes?
2. ? Ordinary, homely.
1613Beaum. & Fl. Captain ii. i, Though I am plain and dudgeon, I would not be an ass. c1618Fletcher Q. Corinth ii. iv, Tell him I..would request to see him presently: Ye see I use old dudgen phrase to draw him. |