dudgeon means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
dudgeon is pronounced /ˈdʌd͡ʒən/.
Etymology
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.
noun
- A feeling of anger or resentment, especially haughty indignation.“All gentle folks who owe a grudge / To any living thing, / Open your ears and stay your trudge / Whilst I in dudgeon sing.”
- A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree.“Turners and Cutlers, if I mistake not the matter, doe call this wood Dudgeon, wherewith they make Dudgeon hafted daggers.”
- A hilt made of this wood.“And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood”
- A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt.