gudgeon

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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

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

Roberval, like a fool gudgeon, caught at the bait, and had in his own mind fully decided to try the venture.

From Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier by Marquis, T. G.

You are not the gudgeon I took you for.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton