gudgeon
(pronunciation: the first letter ‘g’ rhymes with the letter ‘g’ in “gun”; and the second ‘g’, with the letter ‘d’, rhymes with the letter ‘g’ in “danger” — for pronunciation, please click here & click here)
This word ‘gudgeon’ is used to refer to three types of fish:
(a)
a gudeon (Gobi gobio)
(also called ‘Gobi gobio’) a kind of small fresh-water fish found in Europe
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(b)
mud gudgeon
(also known as ‘sleeper goby’) a kind of fish found in Australia
(C)
blue gudgeon
a kind found in seas
1. gudgeon (noun) = (a) a person who is too willing, too ready, to believe anything without any proof; a person who is easily cheated (b) a kind of hinge joining parts; a bearing
2. (a) to swallow a gudgeon (b) to gape for gudgeons [said of someone who is cheated, tricked, and who submits to (accepts without complaint) someone’s rudeness in public]
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