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gudgeon
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gudgeon is the common name for a number of small freshwater fish of the families Cyprinidae , Eleotridae or Ptereleotridae . Most gudgeons are elongate, bottom-dwelling fish, many of which live in rapids and other fast moving water.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pivot on the end of a beam," c.1400, from Old French gojon "pin, peg, spike" (13c.), perhaps somehow an altered sense of gudgeon (n.1).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A small freshwater fish, ''Gobio gobio'', that is native to Eurasi 2 (context Australia English) Any of various similar small fish of the family ''(taxlink Eleotridae family noshow=1)'', often used as bait. 3 An idiot; a person easily duped ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gudgeon \Gud"geon\, v. t. To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon. To be gudgeoned of the opportunities which had been given you. --Sir IV. Scott.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker [syn: goby ] small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers [syn: Gobio gobio ]
Usage examples of gudgeon.
Shipping the rudder was the hardest he had to grip her round the waist while she plunged head-under several times before the pintles and gudgeons were engaged then they rested for a while, driving under poles.
He bought some number fifteen hooks for gudgeon, number twelve for bream, and with his number seven he expected to fill his basket with carp.
And let me tell you, scholar, that both Martins and Bleaks be most excellent meat And let me tell you, that I have known a Heron, that did constantly frequent one place, caught with a hook baited with a big minnow or a small gudgeon.
By a leather-mouthed fish, I mean such as have their teeth in their throat, as the Chub or Cheven: and so the Barbel, the Gudgeon, and Carp, and divers others have.
If I weren’t a rattle-pated gudgeon I should have thought of it weeks ago!
But many will fish for the Gudgeon by hand, with a running line upon the ground, without a cork, as a Trout is fished for: and it is an excellent way, if you have a gentle rod, and as gentle a hand.
Beneath him the pintles of the rudder were groaning in the gudgeons, and the sea was seething yeastily in white foam under the counter.