transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈpȯr-gē ]
noun
( 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