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noun
A small freshwater fish of species Gobio gobio, native to Eurasia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: common gudgeon, goby, wapper
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Cottus bairdii, more widely known as mottled sculpin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada
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noun
Any of various similar small fish of the family Eleotridae, often used as bait.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
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Synonyms: sleeper goby
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noun
Any of various other fish, similar in appearance and principally in families Butidae and Eleotridae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A person apt to take the bait; one easily cheated or duped; also, an idiot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, figuratively
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Synonyms: chump, chumpion, cousin, cull, cully, dupe, dotterel, easy mark, fall guy, fish, gudgeon, gull, juggins, live one, mark, mug, muggins, pigeon, rube, sap, saphead, schlemiel, sheep, simp, Simple Simon, soft touch, steamer, stiff, stooge, sucker, addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk, bimbo, birdbrain, blockhead, blubberbrain, bonehead, Boeotian, boob, bozo, brainlet, brickhead, bubblehead, bubble brain, bufflehead, buffoon, Charlie, chowderhead, chucklehead, cittern-head, clod, clodpate, clot, clown, crackhead, cretin, cuckoo, deadhead, dimbo, dim bulb, dimbus, dimwit, dingbat, ding dong, dingleberry, dingwad, dip, dipstick, doldrum, dolt, donut, doodle, doof, doofoid, doofus, dope, dork, drivel, drongo, drool bucket, dullard, dumb bunny, dumbbell, dumb cluck, dumbhead, dumble, dumbling, dumbnut, dumbo, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, eejit, fathead, featherbrain, fenderhead, fleabrain, fool, fopdoodle, galoot, gimboid, gomer, gonk, goober, goof, goofball, goofy, goon, goose, goosecap, gorbuson, halfwit, ha'porth, hammerhead, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, inbred, jackaninny, jellybrain, jerk, jughead, knothead, knucklehead, lackwit, lamebrain, log, loggerhead, lummox, lunk, lunkhead, maroon, meatball, meathead, mental midget, mome, momo, mongoloid, mongtard, monkey, moron, mouth breather, mushhead, muttonhead, mutt, nimrod, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit, nitwit, noddy, noodlehead, numbskull, oaf, peabrain, peagoose, pillock, pigwidgeon, pinhead, plank, plonker, prat, put, putz, retard, schmo, silly, simpleton, smooth brain, snapperhead, sot, space cadet, spanner, stupe, stupid, stupid-head, tard, thickhead, thickskull, thicko, tomfool, tonto, toolbox, tosspot, turkey, twit, wally, wantwit, wazzer, wazzock, witless wonder, yo-yo, zany, Vulgar:, ass, assclown, asshat, asshead, asstard, asswipe, buttbreath, dildo, dipshit, donkey dick, Alternative spelling of dumbass., dumbfuck, dumbfucker, dumbshit, farthead, fuck-knuckle, fucktard, fuckwit, jackass, peckerhead, shitbrain, shithead, shitneck, shitwit, twat
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noun
Something used to lure or tempt; bait, a lure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, figuratively
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noun
A circular or cylindrical fitting, often made of metal, into which a pin or pintle fits to create a hinge or pivoting joint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive
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noun
In a vessel with a stern-mounted rudder: the fitting into which the pintle of the rudder fits, allowing the rudder to swing freely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: specifically
Topics: nautical, transport
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Synonyms: brace
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To deprive (someone) fraudulently; to cheat, to dupe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To take the bait; to be defrauded or duped.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
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noun
small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Gobio gobio
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cyprinid, cyprinid fish
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: goby
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
Narrower terms: mudskipper, mudspringer
History
The noun is derived from Late Middle English gojoun [and other forms], from Old French gojon, goujon (“gudgeon”), from Late Latin gōbiōnem, the accusative of gōbiō, the augmentative of Latin gōbius (“gudgeon”), from Ancient Greek κωβῐός (kōbĭós, “fish of the gudgeon kind”), probably of Semitic origin. The English word is a doublet of goby and goujon. The verb is derived from the noun.
From Middle English gojoun (“metal fitting with a ring at one end”) [and other forms], from Old French goujon (“dowel; pin”) [and other forms], from gouge (“gouge (tool)”) + -on (suffix forming diminutives). Gouge is derived from Late Latin gulbia, gubia (“chisel”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *gulbā, *gulbīnos (“beak, bill”).
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