gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

Nothing is so certain to take; the gudgeon will tempt the pike there when an ordinary roach may be displayed before him without the slightest effect.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

You eat a gudgeon a day, and you think you bribe God with gudgeon.”

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

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

One day the gudgeon of the cutter’s rudder was missing, and was believed to have been stolen.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick