porgy
noun
a sparid food fish, Pagrus pagrus, found in the Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coasts of Europe and the Americas.
porgies
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pluralof porgy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The fishing was better there, anyway: Trump and his buddies fished all day long, hauling in fluke, weakfish, and porgies, while beachgoers admired the boat from afar.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 18, 2019
I cooked the fish under a hot broiler — a broiler so hot that the cookie sheet that the porgies were on buckled and warped under the unnatural torment of the electric filament.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2019
A hole-in-the-wall fish fry in Harlem where a cranky old man fried up perfect porgies and served them on sliced white bread slathered with tartar and hot sauce.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2017
Four stocks were added to the “overfishing” category: gray triggerfish and greater amberjack from the Gulf of Mexico, and various scups, porgies and wrasses from Puerto Rico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2015
He seemed a distant man, often lost in his own thoughts as he stood behind the counter stacking porgies in the basket for deep-frying.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
