gudgeon

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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

“Well,” Clay returned, “there’s a gudgeon up on shore that evidently wants to get hold of your hook, and you with it.”

From The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel by Gordon, Harry

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

You’ve played the gudgeon for somebody; that’s all.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

They were disappointed in finding you no gudgeon to be hooked by such raw methods.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton