'Gudgeon' definitions:

Definition of 'gudgeon'

From: WordNet
noun
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, gudgeon]
noun
Small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers [syn: gudgeon, Gobio gobio]

Definition of 'Gudgeon'

From: GCIDE
  • Gudgeon \Gud"geon\, v. t. To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • To be gudgeoned of the opportunities which had been given you. --Sir IV. Scott. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Gudgeon'

From: GCIDE
  • Gudgeon \Gud"geon\ (g[u^]j"[u^]n), n. [OE. gojon, F. goujon, from L. gobio, or gobius, Gr. kwbio`s Cf. 1st Goby. ]
  • 1. (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. What may be got without skill or merit. [1913 Webster]
  • Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A person easily duped or cheated. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Naut.) A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder. [1913 Webster]
  • Ball gudgeon. See under Ball. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'gudgeon'

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