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noun
Porgy  n.  (pl. porgies)  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
The scup.
(b)
The sailor's choice, or pinfish.
(c)
The margate fish.
(d)
The spadefish.
(e)
Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish. (Written also porgee, porgie, and paugy)
2.
(Zool.) Any one of numerous sparoid food fishes, as the jolthead porgy, the sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna) of the West Indies, the grass porgy (Calamus arctifrons) of Florida, and the red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) of Europe.






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"Porgy" Quotes from Famous Books



... eyes and talking more jerkily than usual. He paid no attention to two or three schools that made me just crazy just to look at, but at last, when he thought it was time, he began to move. Ten or a dozen Gloucester vessels were bunched together, and one porgy steamer—that is, built for porgy or menhaden fishing, but just now trying for mackerel like the rest ...
— The Seiners • James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

... and Georgy Porgy; the Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds, and the Cow that jumped over the Moon. ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves



Words linked to "Porgy" :   Stenotomus chrysops, saltwater fish, red porgy, sheepshead porgy, scup, southern porgy, bream, northern scup, Pagrus pagrus, Stenotomus aculeatus, southern scup, northern porgy



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