gudgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌdʒən/
ipa: /ˈɡʌd͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈɡʌjən/
rhymes: -ʌdʒən
Forms: form: gudgeons
Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English gojoun [and other forms], from Old French gojon, goujon (“gudgeon”), from Late Latin gōbiōnem, the accusative of gōbiō, the augmentative of Latin gōbius (“gudgeon”), from Ancient Greek κωβῐός (kōbĭós, “fish of the gudgeon kind”), probably of Semitic origin. The English word is a doublet of goby and goujon.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: [...] Ile tell thee more of this another time. / But fiſh not with this melancholy baite, / For this foole gudgin, this opinion: [...]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: [...] Make Fools believe in their fore-seeing / Of things before they are in Being; / To swallow Gudgeons ere th' are catch'd, / And count their Chickens ere th' are hatch'd, [...]
ref: 1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras. Canto III.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 175:
text: The Gudgeon is reputed a fish of excellent taste, and to be very wholesome: he is of a fine shape, of a silver colour, and beautified with black spots both on his body and tail.
ref: 1676, Izaak Walton, “[The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation: Part I […].] Observations of the Gudgeon, the Ruffe, and the Bleak, and How to Fish for Them.”, in Richard Le Gallienne, editor, The Compleat Angler, 5th edition, London; New York, N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head, published 1897, →OCLC, page 199:
text: 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.
ref: 1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Why is such a Man Alive?”, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Brothers Karamazov […], New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published 1922, part I, book II (An Unfortunate Gathering), page 73:
synonyms: word: goby
word: wapper
glosses: A small freshwater fish, Gobio gobio, that is native to Eurasia.
glosses: Cottus bairdii, more widely known as mottled sculpin.
examples: text: The southern purple-spotted gudgeon [Mogurnda adspersa] can be hard to find. Although colourful, they are thin and only grow up to 12 centimetres.
ref: 2012 October 5, Nicola Gage, “Murray Showing Signs of Recovery”, in ABC News, Sydney, N.S.W., archived from the original on 01 Nov 2019:
synonyms: sleeper goby
glosses: Any of various similar small fish of the family Eleotridae, often used as bait.
glosses: Other fish, similar in appearance, principally in families Butidae and Eleotridae, but also in others.
examples: text: The Doctor now obeys the Summons, / Likes both his Company, and Commons; / Diſplays his Talent, ſits till Ten; / Next Day invited, comes again; / Soon grows Domeſtick, ſeldom fails, / Either at Morning, or at Meals; / Came early, and departed late: / In ſhort, the Gudgeon took the Bait.
ref: 1713, Jonathan Swift, “Horace, Epistle VII. Book I. Imitated and Addressed to the Earl of Oxford, in the Year 1713”, in Miscellanies. The Last Volume, London: […] Benjamin Motte, […], published 1733, →OCLC, page 149, lines 73–80:
text: "Is it not also known that you two innocents were doing the Churches week by week? Was it not patent that sooner or later you would come to a Spiritualist gathering? Here was a chance for a convert! They set a bait and poor old gudgeon Malone came along and swallowed it."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: "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."
ref: 2004, Robert Jordan, “Making Use of Invisibility”, in New Spring, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 298:
synonyms: word: chump
word: chumpion
word: cousin
word: cull
word: cully
word: dupe
word: dotterel
word: easy mark
word: fall guy
word: fish
word: gudgeon
word: gull
word: juggins
word: live one
word: mark
word: mug
word: muggins
word: pigeon
word: rube
word: sap
word: saphead
word: schlemiel
word: sheep
word: simp
word: Simple Simon
word: soft touch
word: steamer
word: stiff
word: stooge
word: sucker
word: addle-brain
word: addlehead
word: addle pate
word: airhead
word: baboon
word: beanbrain
word: beetlebrain
word: beetlehead
word: berk
word: bimbo
word: birdbrain
word: blockhead
word: blubberbrain
word: bonehead
word: Boeotian
word: boob
word: bozo
word: brainlet
word: brickhead
word: bubblehead
word: bubble brain
word: bufflehead
word: buffoon
word: Charlie
raw_tags: with "right" and/or "proper"
word: chowderhead
word: chucklehead
word: chump
word: cittern-head
word: clod
word: clodpate
word: clot
word: clown
word: crackhead
word: cretin
word: cuckoo
word: deadhead
word: dimbo
word: dim bulb
word: dimbus
word: dimwit
word: dingbat
word: ding dong
word: dingleberry
word: dingwad
word: dip
word: dipstick
word: doldrum
word: dolt
word: donut
word: doodle
word: doof
word: doofoid
word: doofus
word: dope
word: dork
word: drivel
word: drongo
word: drool bucket
word: dullard
word: dumb bunny
word: dumbbell
word: dumb cluck
word: dumbhead
word: dumble
word: dumbling
word: dumbnut
word: dumbo
word: dummkopf
word: dummy
word: dunce
word: dunderhead
word: dunderpate
word: eejit
word: fathead
word: featherbrain
word: fenderhead
word: fleabrain
word: fool
word: fopdoodle
word: galoot
word: gimboid
word: gomer
word: gonk
word: goober
word: goof
word: goofball
word: goofy
word: goose
word: goosecap
word: gorbuson
word: gudgeon
word: halfwit
word: ha'porth
word: hammerhead
word: idiot
word: ignoramus
word: imbecile
word: inbred
word: jackaninny
word: jellybrain
word: jerk
word: juggins
word: jughead
word: knothead
word: knucklehead
word: lackwit
word: lamebrain
word: log
word: loggerhead
word: lummox
word: lunk
word: lunkhead
word: maroon
word: meatball
word: meathead
word: mental midget
word: mome
word: momo
word: mongoloid
word: mongtard
word: monkey
word: moron
word: mouth breather
word: muggins
word: mushhead
word: muttonhead
word: mutt
word: nimrod
word: nincompoop
word: ninny
word: ninnyhammer
word: nit
word: nitwit
word: noddy
word: noodlehead
word: numbskull
word: oaf
word: peabrain
word: peagoose
word: pillock
word: pigwidgeon
word: pinhead
word: plank
word: plonker
word: prat
word: put
word: putz
word: retard
word: sap
word: saphead
word: schmo
word: silly
word: simp
word: simpleton
word: snapperhead
word: sot
word: space cadet
word: spanner
word: stupe
word: stupid
word: stupid-head
word: tomfool
word: tard
word: thickhead
word: thickskull
word: thicko
word: tonto
word: toolbox
word: tosspot
word: turkey
word: twit
word: wally
word: wantwit
word: wazzer
word: wazzock
word: witless wonder
word: yo-yo
word: zany
word: Vulgar:
word: ass
word: assclown
word: asshat
word: asshead
word: asstard
word: asswipe
word: buttbreath
word: dildo
word: dipshit
word: donkey dick
word: Alternative spelling of dumbass.
word: dumbfuck
word: dumbfucker
word: dumbshit
word: farthead
word: fuck-knuckle
word: fucktard
word: fuckwit
word: jackass
word: peckerhead
word: shitbrain
word: shithead
word: shitneck
word: shitwit
word: twat
glosses: A person apt to take the bait; one easily cheated or duped; also, an idiot.
glosses: Something used to lure or tempt; bait, a lure.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Butis amboinensis
word: Ambon gudgeon B
taxonomic: Abbottina rivularis
word: Amur false gudgeon G
alt: Microphysiogobio amurensis
word: Amur longnose gudgeon G
word: Amur white gudgeon
word: Amur white-finned gudgeon
taxonomic: Romanogobio tenuicorpus
word: Amur whitefin gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gobio hettitorum
word: Anatolian gudgeon G
word: Aru gudgeon
alt: Oxyelectris aruensis
word: Aru Island gudgeon E
alt: Hypseliotris compressa
word: Australian carp-gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobio alverniae
word: Auvergne gudgeon G
taxonomic: Hypseleotris kimberleyensis
word: Barnett River gudgeon E
taxonomic: Bostrychus zonatus
word: barred gudgeon B
taxonomic: Gobio microlepidotus
word: Beysehir gudgeon G
taxonomic: Philypnodon grandiceps
word: big-headed gudgeon E
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris selheimi
word: black banded gudgeon E
taxonomic: Eleotris melanosoma
word: black gudgeon E
word: black-banded gudgeon
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris selheimi
word: blackbanded gudgeon E
taxonomic: Butis melanostigma
word: black-spotted gudgeon B
word: blind cave gudgeon
taxonomic: Milyeringa veritas
word: blind gudgeon M
taxonomic: Ptereleotris microlepis
word: blue gudgeon E
word: brown gudgeon
taxonomic: Eleotris fusca
word: brown spine-cheek gudgeon E
taxonomic: Philypnodon grandiceps
word: bull-headed gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobio gymnostethus
word: Cappodocian gudgeon G
taxonomic: Hypseleotris compressa
word: carp gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobio holurus
word: Caspian gudgeon G
taxonomic: Milyeringa veritas
word: cave gudgeon M
word: Chersky's gudgeon
taxonomic: Sarcocheilichthys czerskii
word: Cherskii's thicklip gudgeon G
taxonomic: Abbottina rivularis
word: Chinese false gudgeon G
taxonomic: Bostrychus sinensis
word: Chinese gudgeon B
taxonomic: Sarcocheilichthys sinensis
word: Chinese lake gudgeon G
taxonomic: Saurogobio dabryi
word: Chinese lizard gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gobio delyamurei
word: Chornaya gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gobio insuyanus
word: Cihanbeyli gudgeon G
word: Cox's gudgeon
taxonomic: Gobiomorphus coxii
word: Cox gudgeon E
taxonomic: Butis koilomatodon
word: crested gudgeon B
word: crimson-tipped flathead gudgeon
word: crimsontip gudgeon
taxonomic: Butis butis
word: crimson-tipped gudgeon B
taxonomic: Aulopyge huegelii
word: Dalmatian bargel-gudgeon C
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris lineolata
word: Daly river gudgeon E
taxonomic: Romanogobio antipai
word: Danube delta gudgeon G
word: Danube gudgeon
word: Danubian gudgeon
alt: Romonogobio uranoscopus
word: Danubian longbarbel gudgeon G
alt: Calumnia profunda
word: deepreef gudgeon E
taxonomic: Romanogobio kesslerii
word: Dniester longbarbel gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gobio brevicirris
word: Don gudgeon G
taxonomic: Romanogobio tanaiticus
word: Don whitefin gudgeon G
alt: Calumnia godeffroyi
word: doublespot gudgeon E
taxonomic: Kimberleyeleotris notata
word: Drysdale gudgeon E
taxonomic: Thalasseleotris adela
word: dusky marine gudgeon E
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris nullipora
word: dwarf gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobio intermedius
word: Eber gudgeon G
taxonomic: Eleotris melanosoma
word: ebony gudgeon E
taxonomic: Paragalaxias dissimilis
word: eel-gudgeon Ga
taxonomic: Gobiobotia homalopteroidea
word: eight-whisker gudgeon G
word: eight-whiskered gudgeon
taxonomic: Gobiobotia pappenheimi
word: eightbarbel gudgeon G
taxonomic: Hypseleotris compressa
word: empire gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobio battalgilae
word: Eyilikler gudgeon G
taxonomic: Abbottina spp.
word: false gudgeon G
taxonomic: Mogurnda oligolepis
word: false-spotted gudgeon E
alt: Calumnia eilperinae
word: fartail coralgudgeon E
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris paucipora
word: few-pored gudgeon E
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris fimbriata
word: fimbriate gudgeon E
taxonomic: Incara multisquamatus
word: finescale gudgeon B
word: firetail gudgeon
taxonomic: Hypseleotris galii
word: firetailed gudgeon E
taxonomic: Romanogobio pentatrichus
word: five-rayed gudgeon G
taxonomic: Butis butis
word: flat-head gudgeon B
alt: Butis butis B., Philypnodon grandiceps E.
word: flat-headed gudgeon
taxonomic: Philypnodon grandiceps
word: flathead gudgeon E
taxonomic: Eleotris fusca
word: freshwater gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobio fushunensis
word: fushun gudgeon G
taxonomic: Hypseleotris galii
word: Gale's carp-gudgeon E
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris selheimi
word: giant gudgeon E
word: golden carp gudgeon
taxonomic: Hypseleotris aurea
word: golden gudgeon E
taxonomic: Grahamichthys radiatus
word: Graham's gudgeon T
taxonomic: Romanogobio elimeius
word: Greek stone gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gobio lozanoi
word: Iberian gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gobio maeandricus
word: Isikli gudgeon G
taxonomic: Bostrychus aruensis
word: island gudgeon B
taxonomic: Gobio gobio
word: Issyk-Kul gudgeon G
taxonomic: Romanogobio benacensis
word: Italian gudgeon G
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris nullipora
word: Jardine gudgeon E
taxonomic: Romanogobio kesslerii
word: Kessler's gudgeon G
taxonomic: Squalidus chankaensis
word: Khanka gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gobio kubanicus
word: Kuban gudgeon G
word: Kuban long-barbelled gudgeon
taxonomic: Romanogobio pentatrichus
word: Kuban longbarbel gudgeon G
taxonomic: Romanogobio persus
word: Kura gudgeon G
taxonomic: Bostrychus scalaris
word: ladder gudgeon B
taxonomic: Gobio occitaniae
word: Languedoc gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gobio soldatovi
word: Lena gudgeon G
taxonomic: Valenciennea muralis
word: lined gudgeon G
taxonomic: Saurogobio dabryi
word: lizard gudgeon G
taxonomic: Ptereleotris microlepis
word: long-finned gudgeon E
taxonomic: Microphysogobio tungtingensis
word: long-nosed gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gnathopogon strigatus
word: Manchurian gudgeon G
taxonomic: Thalasseleotris adela
word: marine gudgeon T
taxonomic: Kimberleyeleotris hutchinsi
word: Mitchell gudgeon E
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris lineolata
word: mud gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobiomorphus coxii
word: Mulgoa gudgeon E
taxonomic: Ophiocara porocephala
word: mullet gudgeon B
taxonomic: Gobiomorphus coxii
word: Nepean gudgeon E
word: North Caucasian gudgeon
taxonomic: Romanogobio ciscaucasicus
word: North Caucasian longbarbel gudgeon G
taxonomic: Coreius septentrionalis
word: northern bronze gudgeon G
taxonomic: Hypseleotris compressa
word: northern carp-gudgeon E
taxonomic: Ophiocara porocephala
word: northern mud gudgeon B
taxonomic: Mogurnda mogurnda
word: northern purplespotted gudgeon E
taxonomic: Romanogobio belingi
word: northern whitefin gudgeon G
taxonomic: Valenciennea longipinnis
word: ocellated gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gobio ohridanus
word: Ohrid gudgeon G
taxonomic: Butis amboinensis etc.
word: olive flathead gudgeon B
taxonomic: Gobio soldatovi
word: Pacific gudgeon G
taxonomic: Ptereleotris heteroptera
word: pale gudgeon E
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris wisselensis
word: panial gudgeon E
alt: Calumnia papuensis
word: Papuan coralgudgeon E
word: peacock gudgeon
taxonomic: Tateurndina ocellicauda
word: peacock-eye gudgeon E
taxonomic: Romanogobio persus
word: Persian gudgeon G
taxonomic: Butis butis
word: pointed-head gudgeon B
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris nullipora
word: poreless gudgeon E
taxonomic: Hypseleotris regalis
word: Prince Regent gudgeon E
taxonomic: Mogurnda adspersa
word: purple-spotted gudgeon E
taxonomic: Sarcocheilichthys nigripinnis
word: rainbow gudgeon G
alt: Gobiocypris rarus
word: rare gudgeon G
taxonomic: Hypseleotris regalis
word: Regent carp gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobio sakaryaensis
word: Sakarya gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gobio krymensis
word: Salgir gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gobius niger
word: sea gudgeon G
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris heterodon
word: Sentani gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobio delyamurei
word: short-barbelled Crimean gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gobio cynocephalus
word: Siberian gudgeon G
taxonomic: Odonteleotris macrodon
word: sinuous gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobio skadarensis
word: Skadar gudgeon G
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris selheimi
word: sleeper gudgeon E
word: slender carp gudgeon
taxonomic: Hypseleotris ejuncida
word: slender gudgeon E
taxonomic: Pseudorasbora elongata
word: slender top-mouth gudgeon G
taxonomic: Romanogobio parvus
word: small Kuban gudgeon G
taxonomic: Squalidus minor
word: small silver gudgeon G
word: small-eyed gudgeon
taxonomic: Prionobutis microps
word: smalleye gudgeon B
taxonomic: Odonteleotris macrodon
word: smooth-scaled gudgeon E
word: snake-headed gudgeon
taxonomic: Giuris margaritaceus
word: snakehead gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobio soldatovi
word: Soldatov's gudgeon G
word: Soldatov's thicklip gudgeon
taxonomic: Sarcocheilichthys soldatovi
word: Soldatov's toothed gudgeon G
taxonomic: Romanogobio macropterus
word: South Caucasian gudgeon G
taxonomic: Mogurnda adspersa
word: southern purplespotted gudgeon E
taxonomic: Ophiocara porocephala
word: spangled gudgeon B
word: spine-cheek gudgeon
taxonomic: Eleotris acanthopomus
word: spinecheek gudgeon E
taxonomic: Ptereleotris evides
word: spottail gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobiomorphus australis
word: striped gudgeon E
taxonomic: Bostrychus strigogenys
word: striped-cheek gudgeon B
taxonomic: Bostrychus zonatus
word: sunset gudgeon B
taxonomic: Oxyeleotris stagnicola
word: swamp gudgeon E
alt: Ladislavia taczanowskii
word: Tachanovsky's gudgeon G
taxonomic: Gobio feraeensis
word: Thessaly gudgeon G
taxonomic: Belobranchus belobranchus
word: throat-spine gudgeon E
taxonomic: Pseudorasbora parva
word: topmouth gudgeon G
taxonomic: Hypseleotris cyprinoides
word: tropical carp gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobio sarmaticus
word: Ukrainian gudgeon G
alt: Platysmacheilus longibarbatus
word: united-lip gudgeon G
taxonomic: Mogurnda variegata
word: variegated gudgeon E
taxonomic: Gobio kovatschevi
word: Varna gudgeon G
taxonomic: Hypseleotris klunzingeri
word: western carp gudgeon E
taxonomic: Romanogobio albipinnatus
word: white-finned gudgeon G
taxonomic: Philypnodon grandiceps
word: Yarra gudgeon E
english: B.
translation: B.
alt: sleeper gobies
word: Butidae
english: C.
translation: C.
alt: carp etc.
word: Cyprinidae
english: Eleotridae
translation: Eleotridae
alt: sleeper gobies
word: E.
english: Gobiidae
translation: Gobiidae
alt: gobies
word: G.
english: Galaxiidae
translation: Galaxiidae
word: Ga.
english: Milyeringidae
translation: Milyeringidae
word: M.
english: Thalasseleotrididae
translation: Thalasseleotrididae
word: T.
taxonomic: Allomogurnda nesolepis
word: yellowbelly gudgeon E