gudgeon

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The EA and Thames Water are investigating after dead European eels, sticklebacks, gudgeon and stone loach were discovered in the River Pool.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2026

Morose, georgette, cited, ingenuity, questionnaire, accessible, meringue, gudgeon, insoluble, parliamentary, aphorism, olfactory and lineaments cleared the stage of all but three.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the brook the jack do not seem to care much about them; but in the lake above there are no gudgeon, and there a gudgeon is a fatal bait.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

In the month of October it occurred to Mr. Bradley to tempt him with some small fish, and the first gudgeon thrown into the water he darted at and swallowed with avidity.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

He is much like the perch for his shape, and taken to be better than the perch, but will grow to be bigger than a gudgeon.

From Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by Various