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GUDGEON
gudgeon, Gobio gobio
(noun) small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers
goby, gudgeon
(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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
gudgeon (plural gudgeons)
A small freshwater fish, Gobio gobio, that is native to Eurasia.
(Australia) Any of various similar small fish of the family Eleotridae, often used as bait.
An idiot; a person easily duped or cheated.
Synonyms
• (fish of the family Eleotridae): sleeper goby
Etymology 2
Noun
gudgeon (plural gudgeons)
A type of bearing: a circular fitting, often made of metal, which is fixed onto some surface and allows for the pivoting of another fixture.
(nautical) Specifically, in a vessel with a stern-mounted rudder, the fitting into which the pintle of the rudder fits, allowing the rudder to swing freely.
Verb
gudgeon (third-person singular simple present gudgeons, present participle gudgeoning, simple past and past participle gudgeoned)
To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe.
Source: Wiktionary
Gud"geon, n. Etym: [OE. gojon, F. goujon, from L. gobio, or gob, Gr. 1st Goby. ]
1. (Zoöl.)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: 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.
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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