"dudgen" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1815 Sir Egerton Brydges, Archaica: Harvey's Four letters, and sonnets, touching Robert Greene; Pierce's supererogation; [and] New letter of notable contents. Brathwaite's Essays upon the five senses, From the private press of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, printed by T. Davison, p142",
          "text": "[…] whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches […]"
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        "Something worthless; trash."
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        "(obsolete) Something worthless; trash."
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      "form": "more dudgen",
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          "ref": "1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, page 21:",
          "text": "A melancholy boddy is not the kindest nurse for a chearely minde, (the joviall complexion is soverainly beholding to nature,) but I know not a finer transformation in Ovid then the Metamorphosis of dudgen earnest into sport; of harsh sower into sweet; of losse into gaine; or reproch into credit; of whatsoever badd occurrence into some good.",
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          "ref": "1594, Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night:",
          "text": "Gentlemen (according to the laudable custome) I am to court you with a few premisses considered: but a number of you there bee, who consider neigher premisses nor conclusion, but piteouslie torment Title Pages on euerie poast: neuer readidng farther of anie Booke, than Imprinted by Simeon such a signe, and yet with your dudgen iudgement will desperatelie presume to run up to the hard hilts through the whole bulke of it.",
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          "ref": "1599, Michael Drayton, Idea, page 107:",
          "text": "Think' st thou, my Wit shall keepe the pack- Horse Way , That ev'ry Dudgen low Invention goes?",
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        "Contemptible."
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        "(obsolete) Contemptible."
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          "text": "[…] whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches […]"
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          "text": "A melancholy boddy is not the kindest nurse for a chearely minde, (the joviall complexion is soverainly beholding to nature,) but I know not a finer transformation in Ovid then the Metamorphosis of dudgen earnest into sport; of harsh sower into sweet; of losse into gaine; or reproch into credit; of whatsoever badd occurrence into some good.",
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          "text": "Think' st thou, my Wit shall keepe the pack- Horse Way , That ev'ry Dudgen low Invention goes?",
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        "Contemptible."
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        "(obsolete) Contemptible."
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