About The Word Gudgeon
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Gudgeon
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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. |
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