"gudgeon" Definition

Definitions for the word "gudgeon" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
What may be got without skill or merit.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A person easily duped or cheated.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
Small freshwater fish often used as bait. [french goujon from latin gobio *goby]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
8. n.
1 a kind of pivot. 2 tubular part of a hinge. 3 socket for a rudder. 4 pin holding two blocks of stone etc. Together. [french diminutive: related to *gouge]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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