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