GUDGEON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gudgeon mean? 

• GUDGEON (noun)
  The noun GUDGEON has 2 senses:

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

2. small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers

  Familiarity information: GUDGEON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUDGEON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

goby; gudgeon

Hypernyms ("gudgeon" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gudgeon"):

mudskipper; mudspringer (found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins)

Holonyms ("gudgeon" is a member of...):

family Gobiidae; Gobiidae (gobies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Gobio gobio; gudgeon

Hypernyms ("gudgeon" is a kind of...):

cyprinid; cyprinid fish (soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales)

Holonyms ("gudgeon" is a member of...):

genus Gobio; Gobio (true gudgeons)

 Context examples 

She went out to the stream which flowed through the garden, and had a whole bucketful of gudgeons brought to her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At night when the young king was sleeping, his wife was to draw the clothes off him and empty the bucket full of cold water with the gudgeons in it over him, so that the little fishes would sprawl about him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)