Pōr'gee or Pōr'gy, n.

n. [Written also paugie and poggy, abbreviated from mishcūppāhog, pl. of mishcūp, or the Indian name of the fish, from mishe-kuppi, large, thick-scaled.] (Ichth.) A salt-water fish of the gilt-head kind, much esteemed for food. The common species in North America is the Pagrus argyrops. The Sand-porgee is the Sargus arenosus.