gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

The miller’s thumb is about the size of a gudgeon, to which it is allied, but has a head broader than its body, whence it gets its other name of “bull-head.”

From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by Walter, James Conway

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

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

Eight-hundred gudgeon are said to have been consumed in three weeks by eight pike of not more than five pounds weight each.

From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various

And many a gudgeon of the pond, If made to speak to-day, Would own, with grief, the angler had A mighty taking way!

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various