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

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

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

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

And it is well known that the Cardinal de Granville said at Rome, when the two Counts had been taken: “The two gudgeon, verily, have been caught, but the pike has been allowed to escape.”

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de