{"id":21677,"date":"2021-12-01T18:41:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21677"},"modified":"2021-12-01T18:41:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:41:32","slug":"humdudgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21677","title":{"rendered":"Humdudgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Humdudgeon<\/strong> is an interesting Scots word I came across the other day on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@misspunnypennie\/video\/7036108723177180421?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can you guess what it means?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some possibilities:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>a species of duck<\/li>\n<li>a fuss or needless complaint<\/li>\n<li>a children&#8217;s game<\/li>\n<li>a tool for extracting stones from cows&#8217; hooves<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It is in fact a fuss or needless complaint, a big stupid person of an evil disposition, or a bungler. In the plural it means a fit of sulks. Here are some examples of how it&#8217;s used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dinnae ye be giein me ony ae yer humdudgeon<br \/>\n<em>Don&#8217;t give my any fuss<\/em><\/li>\n<li>I would never be making a hum-dudgeon about a scart on the pow.<br \/>\n<em>I would never make a fuss about a cormorant on the pool<\/em><\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re a fearful humdurgeon<br \/>\n<em>You&#8217;re a fearful bungler<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is a combination of <strong>hum<\/strong> (a hoax or imposition, humbug) and <strong>dudgeon<\/strong> (feeling of anger or resentment) [<a href=\"https:\/\/dsl.ac.uk\/entry\/snd\/humdudgeon\">source<\/a>]. It can also refer to an imaginary illness [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/humdudgeon\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hum<\/strong> comes from the Middle English <em>hummen<\/em> (to hum, buzz, drone, make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment), which is probably of imitative origin [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/hum#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The origins of <strong>dudgeon<\/strong> are uncertain. It possibly comes from the English word <strong>dudgen<\/strong> (something worthless, trash, contemptible), or from the Italian word <strong>aduggiare<\/strong> (to overshadow) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/dudgeon\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re <strong>in high dudgeon<\/strong> you&#8217;re indignant and enraged or if you leave <strong>in high dudgeon<\/strong> you do so resentfully or furiously. Can you also be <strong>in low dudgeon<\/strong> (generally happy and content) or even in <strong>in mid dudgeon<\/strong> (more or less happy but somewhat angry as well)?<\/p>\n<p>To me, <strong>High Dudgeon<\/strong> sounds like a quiant little village somewhere in the southwest of England where the residents are relentlessly indignant and enraged about everything. While in nearby <strong>Low Dudgeon<\/strong> people are much more chilled.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/75487768@N04\/50925057858\/in\/photolist-2kA5euW-2kBV9xa-2kySv8i-8PSjHj-9xtAqM-9xwwnG-9xwvmb-9xwywY-9xwDCb-9xwAXj-9xtCgg-9xwA6y-9xwC1C-9xtE5r-9xwyVu-9xtxuX-9xwzym-9xtvNX-9xwBE1-9xwx6h-29J7aAU-zCSufw-zCYtW2-ci7mqS-34oykv-HdEt9-zCQGB9-3gNMGd-AAU3we-zCQon3-zD24qc-AATWtn-AATbN6-Axzfn9-AzRSFg-AyGwqC-AzTay2-AyHCqS-AzSZDc-AigNPC-zD2B5e-AyEXCf-AxB3DA-3Ybe6-zCYktF-AASFWD-AyFg7y-zCTyES-zD2mGr-AyGuMh\" title=\"Cotswolds\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50925057858_69cd220d11_z.jpg\" alt=\"Cotswolds\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<em>A photo of Lower Slaughter, a real village in the Cotswolds in the southwest of England, not far from Upper Slaughter. The slaughter part of their names comes from the Old English word slothre (a muddy or miry place) [<a href=\"https:\/\/explorethecotswolds.com\/visiting-upper-slaughter-cotswolds\/\">source<\/a>], which probably comes from sl\u00f3h (a slough, hollow place filed with mire, a pathless, miry place) [<a href=\"https:\/\/bosworthtoller.com\/28055\">source<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humdudgeon is an interesting Scots word I came across the other day on TikTok. Can you guess what it means? Here are some possibilities: a species of duck a fuss or needless complaint a children&#8217;s game a tool for extracting stones from cows&#8217; hooves It is in fact a fuss or needless complaint, a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,128,10,55,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-italian","category-language","category-scots","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21677"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21691,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21677\/revisions\/21691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}