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单词 porgy
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porgyn.

Brit. /ˈpɔːɡi/, U.S. /ˈpɔrɡi/
Forms: 1700s pargie, 1700s– porgie, 1700s– porgy, 1800s porghee, 1800s– porgee.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pargo n.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably partly alteration of pargo n. (compare 17th-cent. forms at that entry); compare -y suffix6. Compare later paugy n. With sense 2 compare later pogy n.
Chiefly North American.
1. Any of various deep-bodied fishes of the sea bream family Sparidae, chiefly of warm coastal waters, typically silvery in colour, but sometimes having a blotched pattern, and important as food fishes; esp. (a) the scup, Stenotomus chrysops (cf. paugy n.); (b) the pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides; (c) (more fully red porgy) the fish Pagrus pagrus, which has a silvery red body with numerous small blue spots and is found in coastal areas of the western and eastern Atlantic and in the Mediterranean; (d) a fish of the genus Calamus, found in the tropical western Atlantic, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico.
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the world > animals > fish > miscellaneous types > [noun] > porgy or lagodon rhomboides
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous type
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knife-fish1799
kurper1831
goniodont1854
headstander1955
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of (sea-bream)
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silver-fish1703
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red gilt-head1776
sparoid1842
panga1902
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Calamus
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > other edible fish
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alewife1633
tug-whitingc1650
weakfish1686
ten-pounder1699
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tusk1707
porgy1725
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rockfish1731
tautog1750
sea bass1765
Albany beef1779
sable1810
Murray cod1843
paradise fish1858
spot1864
strawberry bass1867
nannygai1871
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Ephippidae (spade-fishes) > chaetodipterous faber (spade-fish)
moonfish1646
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Pomadysidae (grunts) > member of
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Pomadysidae (grunts) > member of genus Haemulon
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red-mouth1704
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redthroat1840
flannel-mouth1882
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1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 286 The Pargie. It was taken at Old Harbour, and reckoned very good food.
1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 317 Aurata Bahamensis. The Porgy. It is a good eating Fish.
1770 G. M. Johnston Short Descr. Province S. Carolina 28 In enumerating the Animal Part of our Food, I begun with the Fish:—Mullet, Whiting, Black-fish, Rock-fish, Sturgeon, Porgys, Trout, Bream, and many other Sorts of flat Fish.
1849 H. W. Herbert Fish & Fishing U.S. 280 The colour of the Porgee is a deep brownish black on the head and back.
1851 H. W. Herbert Frank Forester's Fish & Fishing 217 The Rhomboidal Porgee, Sargus Rhomboides [=Lagodon rhomboides],..though very similar to the Big Porgee,..[is] clearly distinct.
1884 G. B. Goode Rev. Fishery Industries U.S. i. Plates. Pl. 137 The Margate Fish, Bastard Snapper, or Charleston ‘Porgy’, Sparus pagrus.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 92 About New York, the second syllable of the abbreviated Indian name (mishcuppauog) has been lengthened into ‘Paugy’ or ‘Porgy’.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 100 There are other species known by the name of Porgy..found in this region, such as Calamus bajonado common also at Charleston, where it is called the ‘White-boned Porgy’, the ‘Jolthead Porgy’ of Key West, C. megacephalus, C. arctifrons, the ‘Shad Porgy’ or ‘Grass Porgy’ of Key West, and C. macrops.
1900 Amer. Naturalist 34 355 June would seem to be a good month for fish-cultural work—the hogfish, porgee, and sea mullet are breeding at that time.
1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) iii. 334 Bottom fishermen drop hooks..to catch snappers..porgies, and scores of other fishes.
1993 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 21 Feb. ii. 16/3 Seafood is enormously popular and fish such as whiting or porgies are traditionally rolled in cornmeal, salt and pepper, then fried in lard.
2005 Florida Times (Nexis) 29 May c18 One bright note in the various stock assessments of the bottom fishery is the resurgence of red porgies. The council is considering increases in the allowed harvest.
2. Any of similar fishes of other families; spec. (a) either of two sciaenid fish, the spot, Leiostomus xanthurus, or the black drum, Pogonias cromis; (b) either of two grunts of the genus Haemulon, the porgy grunt or white margate, H. album, or the red-mouthed grunt, H. aurolineatum; (c) a menhaden (genus Brevoortia) (cf. pogy n. a); (d) a surfperch; (e) the spadefish, Chaetodipterus faber; (f) a spiny puffer fish. Frequently with distinguishing word.
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1815 Trans. N.Y. Lit. & Philos. Soc. 1 405 Little Porgee. (Labrus obliquus [= Leiostomus xanthurus]). With raised back, oblique bars, and concave tail.
1848 R. H. Schomburgk Hist. Barbados 668 Haemulon heterodon, porghee grunt..the peculiar noise which they emit when caught, has given rise to the vernacular name.
1878 Amer. Naturalist 12 737 At the present day this name [‘poghaden’ for Brevoortia tyrannus] is almost universally in use by fishermen north of Cape Cod, although it is occasionally varied by ‘poggie’ and ‘porgy’.
1882 U. S. National Museum Bull. 16 597 D[amalichthys] argrysomus [= Rhacochilus vacca]..White Perch; Porgee..Pacific coast of United States, north to Vancouver's Island; very abundant northward.
1883 G. B. Goode Rev. Fishery Industries U.S. 70 Saint Jerome's Creek, Point Lookout, Maryland. A station for the artificial propagation of..the bandy porgy (Chætodipterus faber).
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 394 Chilomycterus geometricus... In Southern Florida the names ‘Porgy’, ‘Puffer’, and ‘Puff Fish’ are sometimes used.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 80 The Red-mouth Grunt, Diabasis aurolineatus, is probably the Flannel-mouthed Porgy familiar to Florida fishermen.
1911 Rep. Comm. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 1908 317/1 Surf-fish (Embiotocidæ).—A food fish found in large numbers along the Pacific coast... They are also called ‘pogy’ and ‘porgy’ on the Oregon coast.
1935 L. S. Caine Game Fish 65 Pogonias cromis... Big Porgy... Porgy.

Compounds

C1.
porgy boat n.
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1898 Lima (Ohio) News 6 Aug. He would send the steam porgy boat from the Landing, three miles below.
1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift 211 The porgy boats are built and operated for just one purpose—fishing.
2002 Providence (Rhode Island) Journal-Bulletin (Nexis) 4 Oct. d07 The porgy boat, which will start fishing at 7 a.m. this Saturday, continues to load up on mostly large and some jumbo scup.
porgy fleet n.
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1914 W. D. Steele Storm 191 For the first time that season the porgie fleet moved in around Long Point.
2003 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 25 June 63 The Sheepshead Bay porgy fleet consists of the Jet, Pilot, Ocean Eagle and Navigator.
porgy steamer n.
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1878 N.Y. Maritime Reg. 13 Feb. 45/1 The porgie steam tug Helen M. Pierce, low, arrived at Bath.]
1880 Harper's Mag. Sept. 510/1 Among the rest are two of the singular ‘porgy steamers’ turned to mackereling.
1914 Oysterman & Fisherman Jan. 7/3 The porgie steamer Long Island which..has been undergoing repairs.
C2.
porgy chum n. Obsolete the residue from a press used to extract oil from porgies, used for agricultural purposes as a constituent of fertilizer; see chum n.2 and v.2
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1869 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 22 Oct. Guano is the form in which ammonia is bought; also fish manures, porgy chum, &c.
1883 26th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. 1882 109 Following this [application of ‘lime ashes’], an application of ‘porgie chum’ at the rate of one ton to an acre, had produced similar results.
porgy-hunting n. U.S. slang (rare) the action or practice of taking whatever work is available.
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1904 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 2 Apr. 239/2Porgy hunting’, which means ‘hooking on to odd jobs at any price’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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