porgy

UK/ˈpɔːɡi/

porgy noun: any of several fish of the family Sparidae of seabreams.

Noun

porgy (plural porgies)

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

porgy meaning in Tamil

porgy in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of porgy

plural	porgies

Origin of porgy

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.

Words formed from porgy

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
salema porgy
saucereye porgy
shad porgy
sheepshead porgy
southern porgy
spotfin porgy
three-tailed porgy
whitebone porgy

Questions about porgy

What does porgy mean?: Porgy means any of several fish of the family Sparidae of seabreams.
What is porgy in Tamil?: Porgy in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Porgy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is porgy?: Porgy is a noun.
How do you pronounce porgy?: Porgy is pronounced /ˈpɔːɡi/ (UK).
What is the plural of porgy?: The plural of porgy is porgies.

Words near porgy in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: porgy (page history and authors); porgy (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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