gudgeon

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From Time Magazine Archive

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

In yonder hole; I must catch a few gudgeon and have a troll.

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

"You preach to your grandmother," retorted Crescence: "such a beanpole as you may open every shutter of her windows and '11 never catch a gudgeon."

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

In the brook the jack do not seem to care much about them; but in the lake above there are no gudgeon, and there a gudgeon is a fatal bait.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard