What's the difference between dudgeon and gudgeon?

Dudgeon


Definition:

  • (n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made.
  • (n.) The haft of a dagger.
  • (n.) A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger.
  • (n.) Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.
  • (a.) Homely; rude; coarse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And when they do that in high dudgeon, they invite iconoclasm – something fashion has proved adept at for just as long.
  • (2) Dudgeon, who appeared alongside Caroline Quentin in the BBC comedy Life of Riley, will play a cousin of Nettles' character Tom Barnaby, John Barnaby, who also works in the police force.
  • (3) The cast will also include Art Malik , John Lynch , Jack Shepherd and Neil Dudgeon .
  • (4) Dudgeon will make his first appearance in tomorrow night's episode of Midsomer Murders and then take over when the 14th series of the long-running drama begins shooting at the end of July.
  • (5) Out Corry Evans (Hull, loan), Federico Macheda (Sampdoria, loan), James Chester (Hull, £300,000), Ritchie De Laet (Portsmouth, loan), Ben Amos (Oldham, loan), Joe Dudgeon (Carlisle, loan), Danny Drinkwater (Watford, loan).
  • (6) Life of Riley actor Neil Dudgeon is to replace John Nettles in ITV1 hit drama Midsomer Murders, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.
  • (7) Dudgeon revealed that, in fact, the author was issued with two traffic tickets, one for driving under the influence and one for driving without a licence, and received a misdemeanour criminal summons for having an open bottle of beer in his vehicle.
  • (8) The test case for European law was Jeff Dudgeon v the United Kingdom in 1981, when the activist brought a case against the British government for the fact that criminalisation was still in force in Northern Ireland.
  • (9) This is about cheating, still the killer word in sport, despite one revelation after another over decades de-sensitising our dudgeon.
  • (10) It makes sense to utilise our project-management skills from oil and gas to offshore wind which is why we are operating Sheringham Shoals and Dudgeon Sands off the UK.
  • (11) This is the Coalition that routinely attacked then-treasury secretary Ken Henry as a partisan figure, but then feigns high dudgeon at the Martyrdom of St Angus.
  • (12) He will be replaced in the leading role by Neil Dudgeon playing John Barnaby, the cousin of Nettles' original inspector Tom Barnaby.
  • (13) Dudgeon's other credits include BBC1's Survivors and forensic drama Silent Witness.
  • (14) It told how the site's reporters had contacted the police department in Licking County, Ohio, and questioned Sergeant Dave Dudgeon about Frey's arrest in October 1992.
  • (15) Gay sex was still criminalised until Jeff Dudgeon won a landmark case in 1981 at the European court of human rights in Strasbourg, overturning that law and forcing the direct-rule British government to legalise homosexual relations in Northern Ireland.

Gudgeon


Definition:

  • (n.) A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons.
  • (n.) What may be got without skill or merit.
  • (n.) A person easily duped or cheated.
  • (n.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal.
  • (n.) A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.
  • (v. t.) To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The influence of test concentration centration ratio of diazinon in whole body of topmouth gudgeon was increased proportional to the body weight.
  • (2) Five of these fish species are reported here as new records for second intermediate hosts of C. complanatum in Japan: the silver crucian carp (Carassius gibelio langsdorfi), the deepbodied crucian carp (Carassius cuvieri), the carp (Cyprinus carpio), the topmouth gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva) and the rose bitterling (Rhodeus ocelatus).
  • (3) It has been verified under laboratory conditions that constant and changing water temperature markedly affects the micropopulation growth in Gyrodactylus gobiensis parasite on the body surface of gudgeons (Gobio gobio L.).
  • (4) Among fishes, the bioconcentration ratio of diazinon by topmouth gudgeon was the highest value, 152 being average.
  • (5) The first case of a Thelohanellus infection in the brain of gudgeons (Gobio gobio) is described.
  • (6) In order to elucidate the functional significance of accessory cells in freshwater fishes, such as the rainbow trout, which displays a poor adaptability to seawater life, a search for such cells was performed in two stenohaline freshwater fishes: the loach and the gudgeon.

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