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/pˈɔrgi/ Listen

noun

Porgy n. (pl. porgies)

(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)

(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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Etymology of 'Porgy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Porgy" Quotes from Famous Books

... resembling a large bream, from which the crews of Quiros and Cook suffered violent pains and bad effects. The porgy of Africa and the ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... among the enticing hooks. Every fisherman handles two lines, and when the fishing is good he is kept busy hauling in and striking off the fish until his arms ache, and the tough skin on his hands is nearly chafed through. Sometimes the hooks are baited with bits of clam or porgy, though usually the mackerel, when biting at all, will snap with avidity at a naked hook, if tinned so as to shine in the water. Mr. Nordhoff, whose reminiscences of life on a fishing boat I have already quoted, describes this method of fishing and ...

— American Merchant Ships and Sailors • Willis J. Abbot

... 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

... and a good many of them haven't stopped praying yet. But only last week, let me tell you, Deacon DRYASDUST wrote to General GRANT'S father, saying: 'JESSE, old boy, there's no use praying for that venerable porgy any longer; he's worser nor ever, and bound to drag LYSSES down to the bottom with him.' The kind old man wrote back to the Deacon 'That's so, GILL, as sure as pickled souse ain't pickled salmon.' And now, Mr. Secretary, I ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 • Various