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Porgy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A fish of the gilt-head kind.

Porgy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The scup.

2. The sailor's choice, or pinfish.

3. The margate fish.

5. 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.