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dudgeon, dungeon
dudgeon (DUJ uhn) (noun)
A sullen, angry, or indignant humor: "Willa walked out of the meeting with high dudgeon."
dungeon (DUN juhn) (noun)
A dark, often underground chamber or cell used to confine prisoners: "The king threw the rebels into the dungeon located below the castle."

After the prince was accidentally locked in the dungeon, he was in a state of high dudgeon and so he complained to the king about how poorly he had been treated.

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dungeon (s) (noun), dungeons (pl)
1. A dark, often underground chamber or cell used to confine prisoners, especially beneath a castle: In the adventure story, the dungeon was different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment.
2. Archaic term, the secure main tower of a castle; The dungeon, a keep or donjon, was very tall and surrounded by a large ditch with water.

This word comes ultimately from Latin dominus "lord, master"

This was derived from dominium "property" (source of English dominion), that in post-classical times became domino or domnio, meaning "lord's tower".

In Old French this became donjon, the term for a "castle keep", and eventually, by extension, a "secure (underground) cell". The form dungeon developed the specialized sense of strong closed cell, underground place of confinement; based on the French donjon (large tower of a castle).

—Dictionary of Word Origins by John Ayto
(New York: Arcade Publishing,1990).

—The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology by Robert K. Barnhart, Ed.
(Bronx, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1988).

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