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Porgy

noun

(pl. porgies)

Lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States. Synonym: scup.

Important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide.

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... eyes and talking more jerkily than usual. He paid no attention to two or three schools that made me just crazy just to look at, but at last, when he thought it was time, he began to move. Ten or a dozen Gloucester vessels were bunched together, and one porgy steamer—that is, built for porgy or menhaden fishing, but just now trying for mackerel like the rest ...

— The Seiners • James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

... and Georgy Porgy; the Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds, and the Cow that jumped over the Moon. ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves