“paugie”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

paugie

释义

paugie local U.S.|ˈpɔːgɪ|
Also paughie, porgy.
[From the ending of the Narragansett Indian name mishcuppâuog, pl. of mishcup, literally ‘thick-scaled’, from mishe large, and cuppi scale.]
Local name of a North American fish, of the bream kind, Pagrus argyrops, also called scuppaug.
1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., Porgy or Paugie.., a fish of the sparus family, common in the waters of New England and New York... It is singular that one half the original name, scup, should be retained for this fish in Rhode Island, and the other half, paug, changed into paugie or porgy, in New York.1864Webster, Paugie... A kind of fish; the porgy.1870Putnam's Mag. VI. 525 Porgy, Scup, and Scuppaug, names..in different sections of the Northern States.1890Cent. Dict., Paughie, same as porgy.

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