gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

He is much like the perch for his shape, and taken to be better than the perch, but will grow to be bigger than a gudgeon.

From Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by Various

You are not bigger than a gudgeon, and you know how to swim, it is easy for you.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Nothing is so certain to take; the gudgeon will tempt the pike there when an ordinary roach may be displayed before him without the slightest effect.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

Dace and gudgeon are not so frequently caught in the navigable waters as other fish. p. 154Chub and barbel are unknown in the Broad District.

From The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk by Davies, G. Christopher