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pungy U.S. local.|ˈpʌŋ(g)ɪ|
Also pungo.
[Origin obscure: cf. pung n.2]
In Massachusetts, ‘A small boat like a sharpey’; in Chesapeake Bay, A kind of fast-sailing schooner used in the oyster-trade; also, a canoe used in oyster-dredging. (Cent. Dict.) Also attrib.
1854W. G. Simms Southward Ho! iii. 28 Their most innocent name is ‘pungo’—a sort of schooner, hailing mostly from Manhattan and Massachusetts. Ibid., For the better oysters..the ‘pungos’ pay three shillings. 1876T. Westcott Centennial Portfolio 32/2 There are models of fish-hatching houses, of fishing-rafts..and also of the oyster-catching material, vessels, pungys, canoes, drags, rafts, etc. 1880G. A. Townsend T. Chesapeake 29 They launched the pungy, not alone. 1884Forest & Stream 24 Jan. 526/2 The model is of a round futtock with but little deadrise, with round stern, sharp, or what we call a pungy stern, but a sharp stern like that of a little canoe costs the least. 1891W. K. Brooks Amer. Oyster Cult. 166 The vast fleet of pungies and canoes. 1899W. Churchill R. Carvel xi, The big ship was already sliding in the water as I leaped into my pungy. 1938‘J. Digges’ Bowleg Bill 24 Next morning the whole harbor is cluttered up with dories, pungoes, and anything down to harness-casks. 1939Sun (Baltimore) 4 Apr. 12/7 The pungy was a keel boat with no centreboard. 1941M. V. Brewington Chesapeake Bay Bugeyes 30 Not more than a dozen square stern, or ‘pungy bugeyes’, seem to have been built. Ibid. 34 Up to about 1908 many of the bugeyes were painted ‘pungy style’ with dark green bends, white rail and ‘flesh’ colored sides. Ibid. 46 The ordinary pungy rig, with sharply raking masts, round mastheads, iron rod cross-trees, upper and lower cap, and with the top-mast not fidded but resting in the lower cap. 1942Sun (Baltimore) 28 Dec. 18/5 Several marine railways with tugs..pungies or bateaux. 1950Ibid. 23 Aug. 20/5 The Old Pungy Wave, last of her type, has arrived safely in Detroit, which will be home to her for some while to come. 1967L. S. Tawes Coasting Captain 4 In the fall of 1868 I left the farm and went dredging as cook on a pungy boat. |