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English : from Middle English gojon, gogen, Old French gougon ‘gudgeon’ (the fish) (Latin gobio, genitive gobionis), applied as a nickname or perhaps as a metonymic occupational name for a seller of these fish. The gudgeon is considered easy to catch, so the nickname may have denoted a gullible person.
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English : habitational name from Blandford Forum and other places called Blandford in Dorset (Blaneford in Domesday Book), probably named in Old English with blǣge ‘gudgeon’ (genitive plural blægna) + ford ‘ford’.
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English (Yorkshire) : variant of Gudgeon.
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What may be got without skill or merit.
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A gudgeon.
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A small gudgeon.
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A person easily duped or cheated.
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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.
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A gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam.
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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.
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To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.
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Same as Gudgeon, 5.
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A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.
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A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.