Porgy Definition

pôrgē
porgies
noun
porgies
Any of a family (Sparidae) of marine percoid food fishes having spiny fins and a wide body covered with large scales, as the scup, the pinfish, and the sheepshead.
Webster's New World
Any of various other fishes, as the menhaden.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
porgy
Plural:
porgies

Origin of Porgy

  • Alteration of Spanish Portuguese pargo both alteration of Latin phager a kind of fish from Greek phagros sea bream bhag- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Spanish or Portuguese pargo, from Latin phagrum, accusative of phager, from Ancient Greek φαγρος (phagros, “sea bream").

    From Wiktionary

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