gudgeon
suomi-englanti sanakirjagudgeon englannista suomeksi
Gobio gobio
syötti
gudgeon englanniksi
A small freshwater fish, (taxfmt), that is native to Eurasia.
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(RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Q1)
(RQ:Butler Hudibras)
(RQ:Walton Compleat Angler)
(RQ:Dostoevsky Brothers Karamazov)
(taxlink), more widely known as (vern).
Any of various similar small fish of the family (taxfmt), often used as bait.
(quote-web)
Other fish, similar in appearance, principally in families (taxlink) and (taxfmt), but also in others.
A person apt to the bait; one easily cheated or duped; also, an idiot.
(quote-book), (Horace)|Epistle VII. Book I. Imitated and Addressed to the Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer|Earl of Oxford, in the Year 1713| title=Miscellanies. The Last Volume| location=London| publisher=(...) (w),(nb...)| year=1713| year_published= 1733| page=149| pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lmg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA149| lines=73–80| oclc= 22094470| passage=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.
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(quote-book), Doherty|Tom Doherty Associates| year=2004| page=298| isbn= 978-0-7653-0629-6| passage="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."
To deprive (someone) fraudulently; to cheat, to dupe.
(RQ:Scott Woodstock)
A circular or cylindrical fitting, often made of metal, into which a pin or pintle fits to create a hinge or pivoting joint.
(RQ:Defoe Crusoe)
In a vessel with a stern-mounted rudder: the fitting into which the pintle of the rudder fits, allowing the rudder to swing freely.
(RQ:Bligh Voyage)