gudgeon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: gudgeons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small freshwater fish of species Gobio gobio, native to Eurasia.
pos: noun
examples: […] Ile tell thee more of this another time. / But fiſh not with this melancholy baite, / For this foole gudgin, this opinion: […]
[…] 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, […]
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.
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.
gloss: Cottus bairdii, more widely known as mottled sculpin.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: Any of various similar small fish of the family Eleotridae, often used as bait.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: The southern purple-spotted gudgeon [Mogurnda adspersa] can be hard to find. Although colourful, they are thin and only grow up to 12 centimetres.
gloss: Any of various other fish, similar in appearance and principally in families Butidae and Eleotridae.
pos: noun
gloss: A person apt to take the bait; one easily cheated or duped; also, an idiot.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
figuratively
examples: 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.
"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."
"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."
gloss: Something used to lure or tempt; bait, a lure.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
figuratively
Derived words: Ambon gudgeon B
Amur false gudgeon G
Amur longnose gudgeon G
Amur white gudgeon
Amur white-finned gudgeon
Amur whitefin gudgeon G
Anatolian gudgeon G
Aru gudgeon
Aru Island gudgeon E
Australian carp-gudgeon E
Auvergne gudgeon G
Barnett River gudgeon E
barred gudgeon B
Beysehir gudgeon G
big-headed gudgeon E
black banded gudgeon E
black gudgeon E
black-banded gudgeon
blackbanded gudgeon E
black-spotted gudgeon B
blind cave gudgeon
blind gudgeon M
blue gudgeon E
brown gudgeon
brown spine-cheek gudgeon E
bull-headed gudgeon E
Cappodocian gudgeon G
carp gudgeon E
Caspian gudgeon G
cave gudgeon M
Chersky's gudgeon
Cherskii's thicklip gudgeon G
Chinese false gudgeon G
Chinese gudgeon B
Chinese lake gudgeon G
Chinese lizard gudgeon G
Chornaya gudgeon G
Cihanbeyli gudgeon G
Cox's gudgeon
Cox gudgeon E
crested gudgeon B
crimson-tipped flathead gudgeon
crimsontip gudgeon
crimson-tipped gudgeon B
Dalmatian bargel-gudgeon C
Daly river gudgeon E
Danube delta gudgeon G
Danube gudgeon
Danubian gudgeon
Danubian longbarbel gudgeon G
deepreef gudgeon E
Dniester longbarbel gudgeon G
Don gudgeon G
Don whitefin gudgeon G
doublespot gudgeon E
Drysdale gudgeon E
dusky marine gudgeon E
dwarf gudgeon E
Eber gudgeon G
ebony gudgeon E
eel-gudgeon Ga
eight-whisker gudgeon G
eight-whiskered gudgeon
eightbarbel gudgeon G
empire gudgeon E
Eyilikler gudgeon G
false gudgeon G
false-spotted gudgeon E
fartail coralgudgeon E
few-pored gudgeon E
fimbriate gudgeon E
finescale gudgeon B
firetail gudgeon
firetailed gudgeon E
five-rayed gudgeon G
flat-head gudgeon B
flat-headed gudgeon
flathead gudgeon E
freshwater gudgeon E
fushun gudgeon G
Gale's carp-gudgeon E
giant gudgeon E
golden carp gudgeon
golden gudgeon E
Graham's gudgeon T
Greek stone gudgeon G
Iberian gudgeon G
Isikli gudgeon G
island gudgeon B
Issyk-Kul gudgeon G
Italian gudgeon G
Jardine gudgeon E
Kessler's gudgeon G
Khanka gudgeon G
Kuban gudgeon G
Kuban long-barbelled gudgeon
Kuban longbarbel gudgeon G
Kura gudgeon G
ladder gudgeon B
Languedoc gudgeon G
Lena gudgeon G
lined gudgeon G
lizard gudgeon G
long-finned gudgeon E
long-nosed gudgeon G
Manchurian gudgeon G
marine gudgeon T
Mitchell gudgeon E
mud gudgeon E
Mulgoa gudgeon E
mullet gudgeon B
Nepean gudgeon E
North Caucasian gudgeon
North Caucasian longbarbel gudgeon G
northern bronze gudgeon G
northern carp-gudgeon E
northern mud gudgeon B
northern purplespotted gudgeon E
northern whitefin gudgeon G
ocellated gudgeon G
Ohrid gudgeon G
olive flathead gudgeon B
Pacific gudgeon G
pale gudgeon E
panial gudgeon E
Papuan coralgudgeon E
peacock gudgeon
peacock-eye gudgeon E
Persian gudgeon G
pointed-head gudgeon B
poreless gudgeon E
Prince Regent gudgeon E
purple-spotted gudgeon E
rainbow gudgeon G
rare gudgeon G
Regent carp gudgeon E
Sakarya gudgeon G
Salgir gudgeon G
sea gudgeon G
Sentani gudgeon E
short-barbelled Crimean gudgeon G
Siberian gudgeon G
sinuous gudgeon E
Skadar gudgeon G
sleeper gudgeon E
slender carp gudgeon
slender gudgeon E
slender top-mouth gudgeon G
small Kuban gudgeon G
small silver gudgeon G
small-eyed gudgeon
smalleye gudgeon B
smooth-scaled gudgeon E
snake-headed gudgeon
snakehead gudgeon E
Soldatov's gudgeon G
Soldatov's thicklip gudgeon
Soldatov's toothed gudgeon G
South Caucasian gudgeon G
southern purplespotted gudgeon E
spangled gudgeon B
spine-cheek gudgeon
spinecheek gudgeon E
spottail gudgeon E
striped gudgeon E
striped-cheek gudgeon B
sunset gudgeon B
swamp gudgeon E
Tachanovsky's gudgeon G
Thessaly gudgeon G
throat-spine gudgeon E
topmouth gudgeon G
tropical carp gudgeon E
Ukrainian gudgeon G
united-lip gudgeon G
variegated gudgeon E
Varna gudgeon G
western carp gudgeon E
white-finned gudgeon G
Yarra gudgeon E
Butidae
Cyprinidae
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yellowbelly gudgeon E
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