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Gudgeon Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Gudgeon? [n] small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers [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 Synonyms \| Synonyms for Gudgeon: Gobio gobio \| goby Related Terms \| Find terms related to Gudgeon: arbor \| axis \| axle \| axle bar \| axle shaft \| axle spindle \| axle-tree \| babe \| boob \| chump \| cinch \| credulous person \| cull \| distaff \| dupe \| easy mark \| easy pickings \| fall guy \| fish \| fool \| fulcrum \| gimbal \| gobe-mouches \| greener \| greenhorn \| greeny \| gull \| hinge \| hingle \| hub \| innocent \| leadpipe cinch \| mandrel \| monkey \| nave \| oarlock \| patsy \| pigeon \| pin \| pintle \| pivot \| plaything \| pole \| prize sap \| pushover \| radiant \| rowlock \| sap \| saphead \| schlemiel \| sitting duck \| spindle \| stooge \| sucker \| swivel \| toy \| trunnion \| trusting soul \| victim See Also \| cyprinid \| cyprinid fish \| family Gobiidae \| genus Gobio \| Gobiidae \| Gobio \| mudskipper \| mudspringer \| percoid \| percoid fish \| percoidean Gudgeon In Webster's Dictionary \Gud"geon\, n. [OE. gojon, F. goujon, from L. gobio, or gob, Gr. ? Cf. {1st Goby}. ] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A small European freshwater fish ({Gobio fluviatilis}), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called {gudgeons.} 2. What may be got without skill or merit. Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. --Shak. 3. A person easily duped or cheated. --Swift. 4. (Mach.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal. 6. (Naut.) A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder. {Ball gudgeon}. See under {Ball}. \Gud"geon\, v. t. To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon. [R.] To be gudgeoned of the opportunities which had been given you. --Sir IV. Scott.

Gudgeon Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gudgeon?

[n] small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers
[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Gudgeon: Gobio gobio | goby

Gudgeon In Webster's Dictionary

\Gud"geon\, n. [OE. gojon, F. goujon, from L. gobio, or
gob, Gr. ? Cf. {1st Goby}. ]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A small European freshwater fish ({Gobio
   fluviatilis}), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and
   often used for food and for bait. In America the
   killifishes or minnows are often called {gudgeons.}

2. What may be got without skill or merit.

         Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool
         gudgeon, this opinion.                --Shak.

3. A person easily duped or cheated. --Swift.

4. (Mach.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden
   shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal,
   or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge,
   but esp. the end journal of a horizontal.

6. (Naut.) A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to
   receive the pintle of the rudder.

{Ball gudgeon}. See under {Ball}.


\Gud"geon\, v. t.
To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.
[R.]

      To be gudgeoned of the opportunities which had been
      given you.                               --Sir IV.
                                               Scott.

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