gudgeon – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
gudgeon
n.
type of freshwater fish; gullible person, one who can be cheated easily; bait, lure
Gudgeon
A
gudgeon is a socket-like, cylindrical (i.e.,
female) fitting attached to one component to enable a pivoting or hinging connection to a second component. The second component carries a
pintle fitting, the male counterpart to the gudgeon, enabling an interpivoting connection that can be easily separated. Designs that may use gudgeon and pintle connections include hinges, shutters and small boat rudders.
gudgeon
Noun
1. small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker
(synonym) goby
(hypernym) percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
(hyponym) mudskipper, mudspringer
(member-holonym) Gobiidae, family Gobiidae
2. small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers
(synonym) Gobio gobio
(hypernym) cyprinid, cyprinid fish
(member-holonym) Gobio, genus Gobio
Gudgeon
(v. t.)
To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.
(n.)
What may be got without skill or merit.
(n.)
The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal.
(n.)
A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons.
(n.)
A person easily duped or cheated.
(n.)
A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
gudgeon
Synonyms and related words:
arbor, axis, axle, axle bar, axle shaft, axle spindle, axle-tree, babe, boob, chump, cinch, credulous person, cull, distaff, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, fall guy, fish, fool, fulcrum, gimbal, gobe-mouches, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gull, hinge, hingle, hub, innocent, leadpipe cinch, mandrel, monkey, nave, oarlock, patsy, pigeon, pin, pintle, pivot, plaything, pole, prize sap, pushover, radiant, rowlock, sap, saphead, schlemiel, sitting duck, spindle, stooge, sucker, swivel, toy, trunnion, trusting soul, victim
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
