different between cheat vs gudgeon

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English cheten, an aphetic variant of acheten, escheten, from Old French escheoiter, from the noun (see below). Displaced native Old English beswican.

Verb

cheat (third-person singular simple present cheats, present participle cheating, simple past and past participle cheated)

1. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.

   Synonym: break the rules

2. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.

3. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.

4. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.

   Synonyms: belirt, blench, lirt

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete, escheat (“the reversion of property to the state if there are no legal claimants”), from Anglo-Norman escheat, Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of eschoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excad?, from Latin ex + cad? (“I fall”).

Noun

cheat (plural cheats)

1. Someone who cheats.

   Synonym: (informal) cheater

2. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.

   Synonyms: fraud, trick, imposition, imposture
3. The weed cheatgrass.
4. (card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.

   Synonyms: bullshit, BS, I doubt it

5. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
   • 1992, Phil Howard, Cheat Mode (in Amstrad Action issue 76, January 1992, page 32)

     I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]

Synonyms

• double play

Translations

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? French: cheat
• ? German: Cheat

Further reading

• cheat (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• 'tache, Tache, Taché, Teach, Tâche, chate, he-cat, tache, teach, theca

French

Etymology

English cheat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?it/

Noun

cheat m (plural cheats)

1. (video games) cheat

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d??n/, /???j?n/
• Rhymes: -?d??n
• Hyphenation: gud?geon

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Late Middle English gojoun [and other forms], from Old French gojon, goujon (“gudgeon”), from Late Latin g?bi?nem, the accusative of g?bi?, the ablative or dative singular of Latin g?bius (“gudgeon”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (k?biós, “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.

Noun

gudgeon (plural gudgeons)

1. A small freshwater fish, Gobio gobio, that is native to Eurasia.

   Synonyms: goby, (Britain, dialectal) wapper
2. (Australia) Any of various similar small fish of the family Eleotridae, often used as bait.

   Synonym: sleeper goby
3. (figuratively, archaic) A person apt to take the bait; one easily cheated or duped; also, an idiot.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dupe, Thesaurus:idiot
4. (figuratively, archaic) Something used to lure or tempt; bait, a lure.

Hyponyms

• joso

Derived terms

• sea gudgeon (obsolete)

Translations

Verb

gudgeon (third-person singular simple present gudgeons, present participle gudgeoning, simple past and past participle gudgeoned)

1. (transitive, archaic) To deprive (someone) fraudulently; to cheat, to dupe.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To take the bait; to be defrauded or duped.

Translations

Etymology 2

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 *gulb?, *gulb?nos (“beak, bill”).

Noun

gudgeon (plural gudgeons)

1. (also attributively) A circular or cylindrical fitting, often made of metal, into which a pin or pintle fits to create a hinge or pivoting joint.
2. (nautical, specifically) In a vessel with a stern-mounted rudder: the fitting into which the pintle of the rudder fits, allowing the rudder to swing freely.

   Synonym: brace

Alternative forms

• (nautical): goodgeon (obsolete)

Derived terms

• gudgeon pin

Translations

References

Further reading

• gudgeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gudgeon (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia