Gudgeon

Quick meaning: Gudgeon is a noun meaning A common gudgeon, a small freshwater fish of species Gobio gobio, that is native to Eurasia.

Meaning

A common gudgeon, a small freshwater fish of species Gobio gobio, that is native to Eurasia.

More Meanings

1. (Canada) Cottus bairdii, more widely known as mottled sculpin.
2. (Australia) Any of various similar small fish of the family Eleotridae, often used as bait.
3. Other fish, similar in appearance, principally in families Butidae and Eleotridae, but also in others.
4. (figurative, archaic) A person apt to take the bait; one easily cheated or duped; also, an idiot.
5. (figurative, archaic) Something used to lure or tempt; bait, a lure.
6. (transitive, archaic) To deprive (someone) fraudulently; to cheat, to dupe.
7. (intransitive, archaic) To take the bait; to be defrauded or duped.

Example Sentences

[...] Ile tell thee more of this another time. / But fiſh not with this melancholy baite, / For this foole gudgin, this opinion: [...]

You save your souls here, eating cabbage, and think you are the righteous. You eat a gudgeon a day, and you think you bribe God with gudgeon.

The southern purple-spotted gudgeon [Mogurnda adspersa] can be hard to find. Although colourful, they are thin and only grow up to 12 centimetres.

"Don't be a gudgeon," she grumbled, tugging at the dress much more fiercely than was necessary. "If this works as you say it will, nobody will notice me."

Word Forms

• gudgeons
• gudgeoning
• gudgeoned

Synonyms for gudgeon

Depending on context, synonyms include goby, wapper, chump, chumpion, cousin, cull.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include goby, bully, gobiiform, gobionellid, gadoid, gardon.

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