gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

And it is well known that the Cardinal de Granville said at Rome, when the two Counts had been taken: “The two gudgeon, verily, have been caught, but the pike has been allowed to escape.”

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de

You’ve played the gudgeon for somebody; that’s all.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

The gambler fixed a keen look upon Lesparre for a moment, and then replied that he was no gudgeon to bite such a stale bait as that.

From Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan

O how foolish," he said; "it was of me to throw That fine gudgeon away!

From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by Novice, A.