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

Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

O how foolish," he said; "it was of me to throw That fine gudgeon away!

From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by Novice, A.

A large upright post is placed on a gudgeon, with shafts extending horizontally 15 or 20 feet.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

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

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton