Definitions for: Gudgeon

[n] small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers
[n] 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

Webster (1913) Definition: Gud"geon, n. [OE. gojon, F. goujon, from L. gobio, or
gob, Gr. ? Cf. 1st Goby. ]
1. (Zo["o]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.

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.

Synonyms: Gobio gobio, goby

See Also: cyprinid, cyprinid fish, family Gobiidae, genus Gobio, Gobiidae, Gobio, mudskipper, mudspringer, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

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