gudgeon

gudgeon is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. What may be got without skill or merit.
3. noun. A person easily duped or cheated.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.
6. transitive verb. To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.
7. noun. small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers
8. noun. 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

   Synonyms: goby

Synonyms

goby

Common word forms

gudgeons, gudgeoned, gudgeoning

Words from these letters

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