gudgeon

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He rose to it like a gudgeon--gave us no trouble whatever.

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  1. noun A small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gobio gobio) related to the carp and used for bait.
  2. noun Any of various similar or related fishes.
  3. noun Slang One who is easily duped.
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  • Fires dotted her from stem to gudgeon, and black smoke poured from her ornate sterncastle. —  Julian, May - Boreal Moon 01 - Conqueror's Moon
  • Horn minnow looks like a gudgeon, which is the pure caseine. —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
  • Blow minnows—gudgeon is the thing Came off the water at 3. —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
  • Now I possess several specimens of all the native species, and have even discovered some ten not hitherto known to occur here, beside one completely new to science, which I have named Cyprinus uranoscopus on account of the position of the eyes, placed on the top instead of the sides of the head,—otherwise very like the gudgeon. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • Notes swimming all down the Seine… Better than gudgeon, eh Maigret did not move a muscle. —  Maigret Mystified - Georges Simenon - Maigret 12
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  1. Middle English gojoun, from Old French goujon, from Latin gōbiō, gōbiōn-, variant of gōbius; see goby.
  2. Middle English gudyon, from Old French gojon, peg, diminutive of goi, gouge, from Vulgar Latin *gubius, variant of Late Latin gubia; see gouge.

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  1. Also dial. goodgeon; early modern English also gogion; from Middle English gojon, gojune, from Old French goujon, French goujon, dial. govion, gouvion = Italian gobione, from Latin gobio(n-), another form of gobius, also cobius, from Greek κωβιός, a kind of fish, a gudgeon, tench.
  2. from gudgeon, n., 2, 3.
  3. from Middle English gojone (of a pulley), from Old French goujon, gojon, gougeon, gougon, the pin of a pulley, the gudgeon of a wheel.
 

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