(n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.
(n.) The haft of a dagger.
(n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.
(n.) Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.
(a.) Homely; rude; coarse.
Example Sentences:
(1) And when they do that in high dudgeon, they invite iconoclasm – something fashion has proved adept at for just as long.
(2) Dudgeon, who appeared alongside Caroline Quentin in the BBC comedy Life of Riley, will play a cousin of Nettles' character Tom Barnaby, John Barnaby, who also works in the police force.
(3) The cast will also include Art Malik , John Lynch , Jack Shepherd and Neil Dudgeon .
(4) Dudgeon will make his first appearance in tomorrow night's episode of Midsomer Murders and then take over when the 14th series of the long-running drama begins shooting at the end of July.
(5) Out Corry Evans (Hull, loan), Federico Macheda (Sampdoria, loan), James Chester (Hull, £300,000), Ritchie De Laet (Portsmouth, loan), Ben Amos (Oldham, loan), Joe Dudgeon (Carlisle, loan), Danny Drinkwater (Watford, loan).
(6) Life of Riley actor Neil Dudgeon is to replace John Nettles in ITV1 hit drama Midsomer Murders, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.
(7) Dudgeon revealed that, in fact, the author was issued with two traffic tickets, one for driving under the influence and one for driving without a licence, and received a misdemeanour criminal summons for having an open bottle of beer in his vehicle.
(8) The test case for European law was Jeff Dudgeon v the United Kingdom in 1981, when the activist brought a case against the British government for the fact that criminalisation was still in force in Northern Ireland.
(9) This is about cheating, still the killer word in sport, despite one revelation after another over decades de-sensitising our dudgeon.
(10) It makes sense to utilise our project-management skills from oil and gas to offshore wind which is why we are operating Sheringham Shoals and Dudgeon Sands off the UK.
(11) This is the Coalition that routinely attacked then-treasury secretary Ken Henry as a partisan figure, but then feigns high dudgeon at the Martyrdom of St Angus.
(12) He will be replaced in the leading role by Neil Dudgeon playing John Barnaby, the cousin of Nettles' original inspector Tom Barnaby.
(13) Dudgeon's other credits include BBC1's Survivors and forensic drama Silent Witness.
(14) It told how the site's reporters had contacted the police department in Licking County, Ohio, and questioned Sergeant Dave Dudgeon about Frey's arrest in October 1992.
(15) Gay sex was still criminalised until Jeff Dudgeon won a landmark case in 1981 at the European court of human rights in Strasbourg, overturning that law and forcing the direct-rule British government to legalise homosexual relations in Northern Ireland.
Dungeon
Definition:
(n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
(v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.
(2) Months later the company released its free-to-play smartphone version of much-loved strategy classic, Dungeon Keeper, but the game was full of aggressively pushed in-app purchases.
(3) First-hand thoughts When I included the new Dungeon Keeper in my best apps of January roundups for Android and for iOS , there were some cross comments, asking why The Guardian would promote this game at the expense of other, more deserving titles.
(4) These projects will see existing Merlin brands such as The Dungeons adapted for the local market, in partnership with China Media Capital (CMC), it added.
(5) There are quite a few good things about new Dungeon Keeper: its sense of humour has survived the remaking process, and it’s visually polished.
(6) In the dungeons of Gaddafi, Mubarak or Assad they were beaten and hung from the walls, and in some cases had their genitals cut with a scalpel.
(7) Rather than explore dungeons slaying and looting, the game put you in charge of the dungeon, digging out new rooms and populating them with monsters and traps.
(8) Ideally, I'd like to work towards being on a yacht in the Caribbean with a dungeon in the hold.
(9) The key innovation is a new Villain role, which allows one player to take on the role of a Dungeon Master, arranging enemy traps and attacks.
(10) When not at work, they’re just as likely to enjoy walking the dogs or cuddling up on the couch in loungewear (possibly more likely: dolling oneself up for a living is exhausting) as demanding you get yourselves to a pay-by-the-hour dungeon.
(11) The result is an evolution for the series that lets players escape the linear dungeon-to-dungeon progression of its predecessors.
(12) Fifa sponsors’ pretence to principles give Blatter platform to make a stand | Marina Hyde Read more “Like the dungeon in the Fifa HQ, Fifa has become a very secretive place.
(13) That’s the implication (and, in fact, the straight accusation) of many of the game’s critics: that EA has ruined Dungeon Keeper and, by extension, this awful free-to-play business model is ruining games and screwing gamers.
(14) What I encountered was part reliquary, part freak show – and an impressive work of experience design, as stage-managed as anything in the London Dungeon .
(15) He recalled the stench and listening to the screams of others echoing through their sordid dungeon.
(16) Merlin, which also owns Madame Tussauds and the London Dungeon, will spend £53m over three years on the Nagoya park, while local partner Kirkbi Invest will raise the rest.
(17) Negative reviews The original Dungeon Keeper was brilliant.
(18) Positive reviews suggest the balance is much better than for the ill-fated Dungeon Keeper , released earlier in the year.
(19) Reynolds did paint histories, such as his scene from Dante of Ugolino and his children being starved to death in a dungeon, but, more successfully, he painted portraits that aspire to the condition of history.
(20) Rogue: Beyond The Shadows (Free) And some more dungeon-crawling in this polished action-RPG, with more goblins and golems than you can shake a (magical) stick at.