porgy

American  

[pawr-gee] / ˈpɔr gi /

noun

• porgy,
  plural
• porgies
  plural

1. Also called common sea bream, red porgy. a sparid food fish, Pagrus pagrus, found in the Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coasts of Europe and the Americas.

2. any of several sparid fishes, as the scup.

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porgy British  

/ ˈpɔːɡɪ /

noun

1. Also called: pogy. any of various sparid fishes, many of which occur in American Atlantic waters See also scup sheepshead

2. any of various similar or related fishes

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• porgies
  plural
• porgy
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of porgy

First recorded in 1715–25; porg(o), variant of pargo, or from Spanish or Portuguese, from Latin pag(a)rus kind of fish, from Greek págros, variant of phágros ) + -y ²

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

porgy porgies

“Everybody offers porgy up as a great eating fish if you’re worried about the supply of other more mainstream species. Is that true?”

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2019

The chefs are supplied with sustainable, mostly local, fish like porgy, fluke and grouper.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2017

"Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy."

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2017

Olympiadis mainly catches dusky grouper, white seabream, and red porgy.

From National Geographic ● Jul. 11, 2016

In Matelote.—Every kind of fish is good in matelote, but the following are the best: bass, black-fish, blue-fish, carp, eel, perch, pickerel, pike, porgy, tench, trout, and craw-fish.

From Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks by Pierre Blot

Similarly, bright-eyed, silver-skinned porgies — usually among the least expensive options at the fish counter — deserve more attention than they get.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2021

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

From what we could tell from our search, humans are the only predator porgies have to worry about.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2019

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

Fresh porgies, dipped in egg, a little cornmeal and flour, and fried in a big pot of hot grease till they were golden brown and crispy on the edges.

From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome

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