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porgie

porgie is the alternative form of porgy.

Meaning of porgy

Noun

porgy (plural porgies)

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

Forms of porgie

pluralporgies

Phrases with porgie

Questions about porgie

What is porgie the alternative form of?
Porgie is the alternative form of porgy.

Words near porgie in the dictionary

  1. Porfirian
  2. Porfiriato
  3. porfiromycin
  4. porgee
  5. porgees
  6. porgie
  7. porgies
  8. porgy
  9. pori
  10. poria
  11. poribacteria

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Adapted from Wiktionary: porgie (page history and authors); porgy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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