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- noun Plural form of
gudgeon .
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Examples
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He catches salmon with gudgeons. 3 If you dine at his house, he has an intention on you.
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Catfishes, rainbow fishes, gobies and gudgeons are particularly common.
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“Hold your fire, you gudgeons!” he thundered, bounding over the debris toward the direction of the sound of yet another snarl and breaking glass.
Sexy Beast IV Kate Douglas, Deanna Lee, Dawn Thompson 2008
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Your diversivolent lawyer, mark him! knaves turn informers, as maggots turn to flies, you may catch gudgeons with either.
The White Devil 2007
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Your diversivolent lawyer, mark him! knaves turn informers, as maggots turn to flies, you may catch gudgeons with either.
The White Devil 2007
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Oh, the little sandy spot below the tumbledown dike, where I used to catch gudgeons!
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‘I must go to Doctors’ Commons and read up wills of the parents of any likely gudgeons I may know.
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Know then, I have made divers desperate leaps at those upper regions; but always fell backward into this vapour-pit, exhausted and dispirited by those ineffectual efforts; and here we poor valetudinarians pant and struggle, like so many Chinese gudgeons, gasping in the bottom of a punch-bowl.
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She was in love with her match just as farmers are in love with wheat and eighty shillings a quarter; or shareholders — innocent gudgeons — with seven and half per cent interest on their paid up capital.
Doctor Thorne 2004
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She went out to the stream which flowed through the garden, and had a whole bucketful of gudgeons brought to her.
Household Tales 2003
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