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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Other Word Forms of Porgy

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

Porgy Sentence Examples

  • In America the name bream is commonly given to the golden shiner minnow (Abramis chrysoleucus), to the pumpkin-seed sunfish (Eupomotis gibbosus), and to some kinds of porgy (Sparidae).

  • It was the uniquely authoritative voice of Nina Simone, however, which succeeded in making I Loves You Porgy such a pivotal song.

  • Try your hand at catching yellowtail snapper, grouper, porgy or any member of the fierce fighting jack family.

  • As the third season of the hugely popular U.K. show progressed, judges and critics alike were still not convinced that Lewis had what it took to become a star, that is, until her performance of the Porgy and Bess classic, Summertime.

  • He would use his singing talents in tandem with his dancing quite often, whether performing numbers from Porgy and Bess in the movies or on the floorboards of the Great White Way.

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Words Starting With

PPOPOR

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