porgy

Noun

Meaning

The scup.

The sailor's choice, or pinfish.

The margate fish.

The spadefish.

Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

scup bream red porgy pandora dorado pomfret fish snapper crappie sea bream spadefish sparid bluegill dentex sargo
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Hypernyms

bream fish sea bream saltwater fish

Hyponyms

scup red porgy northern porgy northern scup southern porgy southern scup

Phrases with the word

black porgy striped porgy called also porgy saucereye porgy silver porgy blackspot porgy

Derivatives

porgies

Anagrams

gropy

Examples

Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power. George Gershwin

That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was. Cab Calloway

Carmen Jones (1954) is a reworking of the Bizet opera Carmen to a wartime African-American setting while Porgy and Bess (1959) is based on the George Gershwin opera. Source: Internet

Even before the play had been fully written, Heyward was in discussions with George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel, which appeared in 1935 as Porgy and Bess (renamed to distinguish it from the play). Source: Internet

Gershwin recorded excerpts from Porgy and Bess with members of the original cast, conducting the orchestra from the keyboard; he even announced the selections and the names of the performers. Source: Internet

Gershwin's most ambitious composition was Porgy and Bess (1935). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Porfiriato porfiromycin porgie Pori poribacterial poribacterium