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Definition of Gudgeon

Gudgeon
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.
Gudgeon
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.

Meaning of Gudgeon from wikipedia

- A gudgeon is a socket-like, cylindrical (i.e., female) ****ing attached to one component to enable a pivoting or hinging connection to a second component...
- In internal combustion engines, the gudgeon pin (English, wrist pin or piston pin US English) connects the piston to the connecting rod, and provides...
- Gudgeon is the common name for a miniature barbel and a number of small freshwater fish of the families Butidae, Cyprinidae, Eleotridae or Ptereleotridae...
- Mac Gudgeon (2 March 1949 – 25 May 2023) was an Australian film and television screenwriter. Gudgeon was perhaps best known for writing the television...
- USS Gudgeon, named in honor of the gudgeon. USS Gudgeon (SS-211) was a Tambor-class submarine, commissioned in 1941 and lost in 1944 USS Gudgeon (SS-567)...
- The Beyşehir gudgeon (Gobio microlepidotus) is a species of gudgeon, a small freshwater in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to Lake Beyşehir in Turkey...
- Wiremu Mulligan "Bill" Gudgeon is a former New Zealand politician. He is a member of the New Zealand First party. Gudgeon is of Ngāti Porou descent and...
- galii, commonly known as the firetail gudgeon, fire-tailed gudgeon, or Gale's carp-gudgeon, is a species of gudgeon endemic to coastal eastern Australia...
- The Siberian gudgeon (Gobio cynocephalus) is a species of gudgeon, a small freshwater in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in the Amur drainage in Russia...
- The Auvergne gudgeon (Gobio alverniae) is a species of gudgeon, a small freshwater in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in the upper Loire, Dordogne...