gudgeon

Meanings

Plural: gudgeons

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
• small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers
• A small freshwater fish, Gobio gobio, that is native to Eurasia.
• Cottus bairdii, more widely known as mottled sculpin.
• Any of various similar small fish of the family Eleotridae, often used as bait.
• Other fish, similar in appearance, principally in families Butidae and Eleotridae, but also in others.
• A person apt to take the bait; one easily cheated or duped; also, an idiot.
• Something used to lure or tempt; bait, a lure.
• A circular or cylindrical fitting, often made of metal, into which a pin or pintle fits to create a hinge or pivoting joint.
• In a vessel with a stern-mounted rudder: the fitting into which the pintle of the rudder fits, allowing the rudder to swing freely.

Verb

• To deprive (someone) fraudulently; to cheat, to dupe.
• To take the bait; to be defrauded or duped.

Synonyms

addle pate, addle-brain, addlehead, airhead, Alternative spelling of dumbass., ass, assclown, asshat, asshead, asstard, asswipe, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk, bimbo, birdbrain, blockhead, blubberbrain, Boeotian, bonehead, boob, bozo, brace, brainlet, brickhead, bubble brain, bubblehead, bufflehead, buffoon, buttbreath, Charlie, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, chumpion, cittern-head, clod, clodpate, clot, clown, cousin, crackhead, cretin, cuckoo, cull, cully, deadhead, dildo, dim bulb, dimbo, dimbus, dimwit, ding dong, dingbat, dingleberry, dingwad, dip, dipshit, dipstick, doldrum, dolt, donkey dick, donut, doodle, doof, doofoid, doofus, dope, dork, dotterel, drivel, drongo, drool bucket, dullard, dumb bunny, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dumbfuck, dumbfucker, dumbhead, dumble, dumbling, dumbnut, dumbo, dumbshit, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, dupe, easy mark, eejit, fall guy, farthead, fathead, featherbrain, fenderhead, fish, fleabrain, fool, fopdoodle, fuck-knuckle, fucktard, fuckwit, galoot, gimboid, Gobio gobio, goby, gomer, gonk, goober, goof, goofball, goofy, goose, goosecap, gorbuson, gudgeon, gull, ha'porth, halfwit, hammerhead, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, inbred, jackaninny, jackass, jellybrain, jerk, juggins, jughead, knothead, knucklehead, lackwit, lamebrain, live one, log, loggerhead, lummox, lunk, lunkhead, mark, maroon, meatball, meathead, mental midget, mome, momo, mongoloid, mongtard, monkey, moron, mouth breather, mug, muggins, mushhead, mutt, muttonhead, nimrod, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit, nitwit, noddy, noodlehead, numbskull, oaf, peabrain, peagoose, peckerhead, pigeon, pigwidgeon, pillock, pinhead, plank, plonker, prat, put, putz, retard, rube, sap, saphead, schlemiel, schmo, sheep, shitbrain, shithead, shitneck, shitwit, silly, simp, Simple Simon, simpleton, sleeper goby, snapperhead, soft touch, sot, space cadet, spanner, steamer, stiff, stooge, stupe, stupid, stupid-head, sucker, tard, thickhead, thicko, thickskull, tomfool, tonto, toolbox, tosspot, turkey, twat, twit, Vulgar:, wally, wantwit, wapper, wazzer, wazzock, witless wonder, yo-yo, zany