Home › Words › D › dudgendudgendudgen means contemptible.EtymologyUnknown. Compare dudgeon.adjContemptible.nounSomething worthless; trash.e.g.“[…] whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches […]” — 1815 Sir Egerton Brydges, Archaica: Harvey's Four letters, and sonnets, touching Robert Greene; Pierce's supererogation; [and] New letter of notable contents. Brathwaite's Essays upon the five senses,Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.dud 76% match — A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile. vs dudgen →dreck 71% match — Trash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff. vs dudgen →dudder 68% match — A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer. vs dudgen →dreckish 68% match — Drecky; worthless. vs dudgen →drossy 67% match — worthless vs dudgen →drecky 66% match — trashy, worthless vs dudgen →diddly 66% match — A small amount of no worth. vs dudgen →duffing 66% match — Like a duffer; incompetent or worthless. vs dudgen →