Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Gudgeon"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gudgeon \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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gudgeon \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
gudgeon
n 1: 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 [syn: {goby}]
2: small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by
anglers [syn: {Gobio gobio}]
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