gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

Every morning the boy from the Weirs arrived with freshly caught gudgeon, and now and then an eel or trout, which the scouts on the staircase had learnt to fry delicately in oil.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

She gave a great shudder, as the man in the fairy tale did when his wife poured gudgeon upon him while he slept.

From Coquette by Swinnerton, Frank

I vote we hook him for a gudgeon, and get the price of a meal.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

You are not bigger than a gudgeon, and you know how to swim, it is easy for you.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk