n.
Pronunciation: ' po ̇ r-g ē
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural porgies also porgy
Etymology: alteration of pargo, from Spanish & Portuguese, from Latin phager, from Greek phagros
Date: 1671
1 : a blue-spotted silvery-red food fish ( Pagrus pagrus of the family Sparidae) of the eastern and western Atlantic also : any of various fishes (as a scup) of the same family
2 [alteration of pogy ] : any of various bony fishes (as a menhaden) of families other than that of the porgy