dudgeonnoun
uk/ˈdʌdʒ.ən/us/ˈdʌdʒ.ən/literaryin high dudgeon
If you do something in high dudgeon, you do it angrily, usually because of the way you have been treated:
After waiting an hour, he drove off in high dudgeon.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Angry and displeased
- acrimonious
- aggrieved
- amused
- annoyed
- apoplectic
- fed up
- fed up to the back teeth idiom
- fit to be tied idiom
- furious
- furiously
- huff
- incandescent
- incense
- peeved
- pique
- pissed off
- rancour
- resentful
- scalp
- stormy
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