What (who) is gudgeon - definition
Gudgeons; Pintle and gudgeon
Gudgeon
·noun A person easily duped or cheated.
II. Gudgeon ·noun What may be got without skill or merit.
III. Gudgeon ·noun A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.
V. Gudgeon ·noun 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.
VI. Gudgeon ·noun 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.
gudgeon
gudgeon1 ['g?d?(?)n]
¦ noun
1. a small freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers. [Gobio gobio.]
2. archaic a credulous person.
Origin
ME: from OFr. goujon, from L. gobio(n-), from gobius 'goby'.
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gudgeon2 ['g?d?(?)n]
¦ noun
1. a pivot or spindle on which a bell or other object swings or rotates.
2. the tubular part of a hinge into which the pin fits.
3. a socket at the stern of a boat, into which the rudder is fitted.
4. a pin holding two blocks of stone together.
Origin
ME: from OFr. goujon, dimin. of gouge (see gouge).
Gudgeon (fish)
![''[[Gobio gobio]]'', the gudgeon](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gobio gobio.jpg?width=200 "''[[Gobio gobio]]'', the gudgeon")
COMMON NAME FOR SEVERAL SPECIES OF FISH
Gudgeon is the common name for a number of small freshwater fish of the families Butidae, Cyprinidae, Eleotridae or Ptereleotridae. Most gudgeons are elongate, bottom-dwelling fish, many of which live in rapids and other fast moving water.
Wikipedia
Gudgeon
A gudgeon is a socket-like, cylindrical (i.e., female) fitting attached to one component to enable a pivoting or hinging connection to a second component. The second component carries a pintle fitting, the male counterpart to the gudgeon, enabling an interpivoting connection that can be easily separated. Designs that may use gudgeon and pintle connections include hinges, shutters and boat rudders.
The gudgeon derives from the Middle English gojoun, which originated from the Middle French goujon. Its first known use was in the 15th century.
Examples of use of gudgeon
1. Last year the topmouth gudgeon was eradicated from Ratherheath Tarn, near Kendal in Cumbria.
2. Scientists have blamed another fish, the topmouth gudgeon, for spreading the infection elsewhere in Britain.
3. Topmouth gudgeon Originally from south–east Asia, it carries a parasite that can wipe out native fish species.
4. The list also includes the topmouth gudgeon – a Japanese fish carrying a deadly infection that threatens to wipe out stocks of salmon and trout.
5. Topmouth Gudgeon out–compete native species such as roach and rudd because it matures at one year old, whereas a rudd does not mature sexually until two or three.