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English Dictionary: gudgeon by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gudgeon
n
  1. 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
    Synonym(s): goby, gudgeon
  2. small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers
    Synonym(s): gudgeon, Gobio gobio
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gudgeon \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gudgeon \Gud"geon\, n. [OE. gojon, F. goujon, from L. gobio, or
      gob, Gr. [?] Cf. {1st Goby}. ]
      1. (Zo[94]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}.
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