porgy

English

Etymology

From Portuguese or Spanish pargo, from Latin phagrum, accusative of phager, from Ancient Greek φάγρος (phágros, “sea bream”).

The similarity of porgy to paugie, especially in non-rhotic accents, may have reinforced both terms.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːɡi/

Noun

porgy (plural porgies)

1. Any of several fish of the family Sparidae; the seabream.
   1. In particular, the scup (paugie, Stenotomus chrysops).
      • 2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, pages 244-245:

        Cooper’s was also a fishmonger, with rows of porgies, snapper, and flounder on ice that slowly melted and dribbled pink water into white buckets.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• black porgy (Tautoga onitis)
• Borrigueta porgy (Boridia grossidens)
• Campeche porgy (Calamus campechanus)
• flathead porgy (Calamus mu)
• grass porgy (Calamus arctifrons)
• Galapagos porgy (Calamus taurinus)
• goat's head porgy (Calamus calamus)
• Japanese black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegelii)
• jolthead porgy (Calamus bajonado)
• knobbed porgy (Calamus nodosus)
• littlehead porgy (Calamus proridens)
• littlemouth porgy (Calamus penna)
• northern porgy (Stenotomus chrysops)
• Pacific porgy (Calamus brachysomus)
• pluma porgy (Calamus pennatula)
• red porgy (Pagrus pagrus)
• salema porgy (Sarpa salpa)
• saucereye porgy (Calamus calamus)
• shad porgy (Calamus arctifrons)
• sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna)
• southern porgy (Stenotomus aculeatus)
• spotfin porgy (Calamus cervigoni)
• three-tailed porgy (Chaetodipterus faber)
• whitebone porgy (Calamus leucosteus)

Translations

fish of the family Sparidae

• Bulgarian: спари (bg) n (spari)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: hammasahven
• Galician: prabo m, esparo m
• Greek: φαγγρί (el) n (fangrí)
• Italian: dentice (it) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: pargo (es) m

References

• “porgy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• porgy at Fishbase

Anagrams

• gropy