2. Noun. (plural of porgie) ¹
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Definition of Porgies
1. porgy [n] - See also: porgy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Porgies
Literary usage of Porgies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"GENUS CALAMUS SWAINSON The porgies This genus contains some 12 species, all
American, all shore- fishes, all closely related, and all excellent food-fishes. ..."
2. Oysters and Fish by Thomas Jefferson Murrey (1888)
"Fried porgies with Salt Pork. —The much-abused porgy is one of the sweetest ...
Select four good-sized porgies, and clean them, but do not remove the heads. ..."
3. The Murrey Collection of Cookery Books by Thomas Jefferson Murrey (1895)
"Fried porgies with Salt Pork. —The much-abused porgy is one of the sweetest ...
Select four good-sized porgies, and clean them, but do not remove the heads. ..."
4. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"... or porgies. See Porgy. 2. (Dutch, schop.) A swing. A New York word. To SCUP.
(Dutch, schoppen.) To swing. Common in New York. SCUPPERNONG GRAPE. ..."
5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1903)
"You know that he was the smallest of them all, and so his name was Small porgies.
He ate up all those boxes and packets and bales and things that had been ..."
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