porgy
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- noun
- /ˈpɔrɡi/
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pargo
- "Now and then." "You can get flounder right off this dock." "I can get flounder in the supermarket." "If you go out in your boat just a few hundred yards, you can get brown trout, porgy, and weakfish."
Examples
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Such as in the example of Porgy and Bess, a richer experience is achieved by studying the background and setting of the opera.
Academic text (2015) -
You seen Porgy and Bess?
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In 1954, the State Department sponsored a tour of the play Porgy and Bess.
Academic text (2015) -
Life in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
Blog text (22) -
There are a variety of fish you can catch on this family charter fishing Gulf Shores vacation, such as triggerfish, red snapper, red porgy, vermillion snapper, and many, many more.
Blog text (2) -
One could teach an interdisciplinary unit exploring connections between Gershwin's "Summertime" and "Porgy and Bess," the folk opera for which the song was written, placing it in the context of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s.
Academic text (2015) -
The chef prepared a delicious dish using fresh porgy fillets from the market.
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During their fishing trip, they caught a hefty porgy that would feed the whole family.
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At the seafood restaurant, I ordered grilled porgy with lemon and herbs for dinner.
Synonyms
A small sea fish with a round body often called a porgy
Compounds
A medium-sized sea fish often eaten and found in the Mediterranean and along Atlantic coasts of Europe and America
- Specialized
A tropical sea fish with strong teeth and dark vertical stripes, found from Florida to Brazil
A sea fish with mild white flesh that lives near the southern Atlantic coast of the United States
Surface Forms
Etymology
Porgy likely comes from a local coastal name fishermen used for this round, meaty fish, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of porgy as sounding like porky, which suggests 'plump' and tasty.