单词 | paugy |
释义 | paugyn. U.S. regional (north-eastern). Now rare. The scup or porgy, Stenotomus chrysops (family Sparidae), of the Atlantic coast of North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Pagrus or Chrysophrys (schnapper) tai1620 snapper1697 stone-bass1698 schnapper1821 paugy1848 scup1848 scuppaug1870 count-fish1874 tarwhine1880 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Porgy or Paugie.., a fish of the sparus family, common in the waters of New England and New York... It is singular that one half the original name, scup, should be retained in Rhode Island for this fish, and the other half, paug, changed into paugie or porgy, in New York. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 386 About New York the second syllable of the abbreviated Indian name has been lengthened into ‘Paugy’ or ‘Porgy’. 1911 Rep. Comm. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 1908 315/2 Scup (Stenotomus chrysops)... Common local names are ‘scuppaug’, ‘paugy’, ‘porgy’, ‘pogy’ [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1848 |
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