different between anger vs dudgeon

English

Etymology

From Middle English anger (“grief, pain, trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow, wrath”), from Old Norse angr, ?ngr (“affliction, sorrow”) (compare Old Norse ang, ?ng (“troubled”)), from Proto-Germanic *angazaz (“grief, sorrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?en??- (“narrow, tied together”). Cognate with Danish anger (“regret, remorse”), Norwegian Bokmål anger (“regret, remorse”), Swedish ånger (“regret”), Icelandic angur (“trouble”), Old English ange, enge (“narrow, close, straitened, constrained, confined, vexed, troubled, sorrowful, anxious, oppressive, severe, painful, cruel”), Dutch anjer (“carnation”), German Angst (“anxiety, anguish, fear”), Latin ang? (“squeeze, choke, vex”), Albanian ang (“fear, anxiety, pain, nightmare”), Avestan angra (angra, “destructive”), Ancient Greek ???? (ánkh?, “I squeeze, strangle”), Sanskrit ???? (a?hu, “anxiety, distress”). Also compare with English anguish, anxious, quinsy, and perhaps to awe and ugly. The word seems to have originally meant “to choke, squeeze”.

The verb is from Middle English angren, angeren, from Old Norse angra. Compare with Icelandic angra, Norwegian Nynorsk angra, Norwegian Bokmål angre, Swedish ångra, Danish angre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ???(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ???/
• Rhymes: -æ???(?)
• Hyphenation: an?ger

Noun

anger (countable and uncountable, plural angers)

1. A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.

2. (obsolete) Pain or stinging.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:anger

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

anger (third-person singular simple present angers, present participle angering, simple past and past participle angered)

1. (transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

   He who angers you conquers you.

2. (intransitive) To become angry.

   You anger too easily.

Synonyms

• (to cause anger): enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate
• (to become angry): get angry (see angry for more)

Translations

References

• anger in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Notes:

Anagrams

• Agner, Negar, Regan, areng, grane, range, rangé, regna, renga

Cornish

Noun

anger m

1. anger (strong feeling of displeasure)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse angr, from Proto-Germanic *angazaz.

Alternative forms

• angre, angir, angyr, hanger, angur, aunger, angure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an??r/

Noun

anger (plural angers)

1. Grief, painfulness, or discomfort; a feeling of pain or sadness.
2. A trouble, affliction, or vexation; something that inflicts pain or hardship.
3. Angriness, ire; the state of being angry, enraged, or wrathful.
4. Indignation, spitefulness; the feeling of being wronged or treated unfairly.
5. (rare) Irritableness; the state of being in a foul mood.

Derived terms

• angerly
• angren
• angry

Descendants

• English: anger
• Scots: anger

References

• “anger, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-29.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse angra.

Verb

anger

1. Alternative form of angren

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse angr.

Noun

anger m (definite singular angeren) (uncountable)

1. regret, remorse, contrition, repentance, penitence

Related terms

• angre
• bondeanger

References

• “anger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse angr.

Noun

anger m (definite singular angeren) (uncountable)

1. regret, remorse, contrition, repentance, penitence

Related terms

• angre
• bondeanger

References

• “anger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Verb

anger

1. present tense of ange.

Anagrams

• genar, regna

English

Etymology 1

Middle English dogeon, apparently from Anglo-Norman or Middle French, but the ultimate origin is obscure. Compare French douve (“stave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?d??n/

Noun

dudgeon (plural dudgeons)

1. (obsolete) A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gerarde (1597) to this entry?)

2. (obsolete) A hilt made of this wood.
   • "And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood" (Shakespeare, Macbeth)
3. (archaic) A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt.

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain:

• Perhaps the same as Etymology 1, above
• Perhaps from Welsh dygen (“anger, grudge”) (from dy- + cwyn (“complaint”)), though the OED rejects this.
• Possibly from dudgen (“trash, something worthless”).
• Possibly borrowed from Italian aduggiare (“to overshadow”), similar to the semantic development of umbrage.

Noun

dudgeon (uncountable)

1. A feeling of anger or resentment.

Usage notes

Usually found only in set terms, see below.

Derived terms

• humdudgeon
• in high dudgeon

References

Further reading

• “dudgeon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.