Inflected forms: pl. porgy or por·gies 1. Any of various deep-bodied marine food fishes of the family Sparidae, especially a common species Pagrus pagrus of Mediterranean and Atlantic waters. 2. Any of several fishes similar to the porgy.
ETYMOLOGY:
Alteration of Spanish and Portuguese pargo, both alteration of Latin phager, a kind of fish, from Greek phagros, sea bream. See bhag- in Appendix I.
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