porgy

English

Etymology

From Portuguese [Term?] or Spanish pargo, from Latin phagrum, accusative of phager, from Ancient Greek φαγρος (phagros, “sea bream”).

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

Noun

porgy (plural porgies)

1. Any of several fish of the family Sparidae; the sea bream.
   1. In particular, the scup (paugie, Stenotomus chrysops).

Derived terms

Derived terms

• black porgy ()
• Borrigueta porgy ()
• Campeche porgy ()
• flathead porgy ()
• grass porgy ()
• Galapagos porgy ()
• goat's head porgy ()
• Japanese black porgy ()
• jolthead porgy ()
• knobbed porgy ()
• littlehead porgy ()
• littlemouth porgy ()

• northern porgy ()
• Pacific porgy ()
• pluma porgy ()
• red porgy (Pagrus pagrus)
• salema porgy ()
• saucereye porgy ()
• shad porgy ()
• sheepshead porgy ()
• southern porgy ()
• spotfin porgy ()
• three-tailed porgy ()
• whitebone porgy ()

Translations

fish of the family Sparidae

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

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: hammasahven
• Greek: φαγγρί (el) n (fangrí)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: dentice (it) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: pargo (es) m

References

• “porgy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Anagrams

• gropy