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 .
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1908- DudgeonEnglish · e-37683-8651
Dudgeon, duj′un, n. resentment: grudge. [There is an Anglo-Fr. digeon, wood hafts of knives, &c., but a connection cannot be stated. Skeat suggests dubiously W. dygen, malice, dychan, a jeer.]
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Dudgeon, duj′un, n. the haft of a dagger: a small dagger. [See above.]
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