porgy

American  

[pawr-gee] / ˈpɔr gi /

noun

porgy, plural porgies plural

1. Also called common sea bream.  Also called 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

Inflected Forms

noun

• porgy
  plural
• porgies
  plural

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

Example Sentences

“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

"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

“Philosophically, we are more like Maysville,” he says, though local pompano and trout replace Maysville’s porgy and char.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2016

And this other crowd––the porgy steamer’s––did not have that look.

From The Seiners by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)