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Definition: Gudgeon |
GudgeonNoun1. 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. 2. Small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gudgeon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Gudgeon Gaping for gudgeons. Looking out for things extremely improbable. As a gudgeon is a bait to deceive fish, it means a lie, a deception. To swallow a gudgeon. To be bamboozled with a most palpable lie, as silly fish are caught by gudgeons. (French, goujon, whence the phrase faire avaler le goujon, to humbug.) "Make fools believe in their foreseeing Of things before they are in being, To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched." Butler: Hudibras, ii. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. The bearing of a shaft, esp. when made of a separate piece b. A metallic journal piece set into the end of a wooden shaft. A reinforced bushing or a thrust-absorbing bloc. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | GUDGEON. One easily imposed on. To gudgeon; to swallow the bait, or fall into a trap: from the fish of that name, which is easily taken. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonym: GudgeonSynonym: goby (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dupe | Noun: dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull, cully, victim, pigeon, April fool; jay, sucker; laughingstock; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool; puppet, cat's paw. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gudgeon |
| English words defined with "gudgeon": Goodgeon ♦ Joso ♦ Trunnion ♦ Wapper, Wing gudgeon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gudgeon": little end ♦ small end. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gudgeon": Goby. (references) |
| "Gudgeon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Gudgeon" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.65% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gudgeon": Ball gudgeon ♦ gudgeon pin ♦ sea gudgeon ♦ wing gudgeon. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "gudgeon": all-gudgeon. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gudgeon | 7 |
gudgeon pin | 3 |
gudgeon peacock | 3 |
gudgeon uss | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gudgeon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sylesh (calf, goof, goofy, gullible, ninny), peshk i vogël, mustak (cat, catfish), leshko (coot, dodo, dupe, gander, goon, goose, greener, greenhorn, gullibility, gullible, innocent, loon, lummox, mooncalf, muggins, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, sap, sap-head, Sawney, simp, simpleton, tom-noddy), cironkë. (various references) | |
Arabic | سمك (fish, pisces, pouter, roach, snapper), المسمار المعصمي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цапфа (journal, pin, teat, tenon, tongue, wrist, wrist pin), шийка (cervix, collar, neck, necking), кротушка, лапнишаран (sucking), болт (bolt, clincher, plug), балък. (various references) | |
Chinese | 舵枢 (gudgeons). (various references) | |
Czech | řízek (cutlet, filet, schnitzel, slice, steak). (various references) | |
Danish | grundling, sandhest, almindelig grundling. (various references) | |
Dutch | grondje, grondel, gebelke, riviergrondel. (various references) | |
Finnish | törö. (various references) | |
French | goujon commun, goujon, goiffon, tregan, tourillon (gudgeon pin), touret. (various references) | |
German | Zapfen (bung, cone, draw, faucet, icicle, pin, pull, spigot, spigots, stopper, tap, tenon, trunnion, trunnions). (various references) | |
Greek | σέτσκα, χρύσκος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fenékjáró küllõ. (various references) | |
Italian | gobione, zaffo (bung, cellar plug, cellar plug(California)), perno (axis, axle, gib, hinge, hub, kingpin, mainstay, pin, pivot, spindle, stud, support, swivel). (various references) | |
Manx | stang (dowel, pillory, stock), kione tramman (bullhead, goby), gudjyn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | udgeongay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gobio (groundling), góbio, simplrio (greenhorn, gull, innocent), cavilha (axle pin, bolt, cotter, forelock, kingpin, peg, pike, pin, pintle, preventer, spike, tenon, thole), cadoz (loach). (various references) | |
Romanian | prostãnac (Cully, daft, dolt, fat, fat-head, gowk, hobbledehoy, noodle, nut, pigeon, soft-headed, tomfool, zany), porcuşor (piggy, piglet, Pigling), pivot (cone, hinge, pintle, pivot, Spike, spindle, Trunnion), nerod (balmy, blockhead, dunderhead, fool, ninny, numskull, oaf, oafish, snipe, spoony), mic peşte de apã dulce, bolţ (bolt, finger, pin). (various references) | |
Russian | цапфа (journal, neck, trunnion, wrist pin, wrist-pin), шип (bur, burr, calk, cleat, male pin, prick, prickle, rough, spine, tenon, thorn, tongue), вертлюг (shackle, swivel), болт (bolt, external screw, kingbolt, screw, screw bolt, screw-bolt), пескарь (minnow). (various references) | |
Scottish | gùda (a gudgeon). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krkuša. (various references) | |
Spanish | gobio, albur (dace). (various references) | |
Swedish | sandkrypare. (various references) | |
Turkish | yem olarak kullanılan kayabalığı, saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, guileless, gull, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, real, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly, witless), pim (Gib, pin, pintle), mil (Arbor, axle, axle tree, cannon, mile, milliary, pin, pintle, pivot, probe, shaft, spindle, style, stylus, tree), enayi (chump, dupe, fall guy, fool, foolish, goat, gull, mug, muggins, pigeon, schlemiel, schlemihl, schlepper, set up, sucker). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бевзь, піскар. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ngõng trục (journal), cổ trục. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Gobio fluviatilis, Gobio gobio, Gobio gobio(Linnaeus,1758). (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gudgeon": gudgeoned, gudgeoning, gudgeons. (additional references) | |
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"Gudgeon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Budgeon, grudgeon, Grugeon, gudgion, Gueguen, Gurgaon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gudgeon" (pronounced gu"jun) |
| 4 | -u" j u n | bludgeon, curmudgeon, dudgeon, trudgen. |
| 3 | -j u n | allergen, antigen, burgeon, carcinogen, collegian, contagion, dungeon, engine, estrogen, glycogen, halogen, hydrogen, imagine, legion, margin, neurosurgeon, nitrogen, origin, oxygen, pathogen, pigeon, plasminogen, region, religion, smidgen, sturgeon, surgeon, virgin. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-g-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: dugong, gonged, gouged, gundog, nogged. | |
-2 letters: gouge, nudge. | |
-3 letters: doge, done, dong, dune, dung, genu, gone, gong, gude, node, nogg, nude, unde, undo. | |
-4 letters: den, doe, dog, don, due, dug, dun, duo, egg, ego, end, eng, eon, ged, gen, gnu, god, gun, nod, nog, ode, one, oud, udo. | |
-5 letters: de, do, ed, en, go, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-g-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: gudgeons. | |
+2 letters: gudgeoned, unclogged. | |
+3 letters: dungeoning, gudgeoning, guerdoning, undergoing. | |
+4 letters: bludgeoning, decoupaging, demagoguing, forejudging. | |
+5 letters: disemboguing, outdesigning. | |
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