poggen.
/pɒɡ/, U.S. /pɑɡ/ Any of various small, spiny marine fishes of the family Agonidae; = poacher n.1 3; esp. the armed bullhead, Agonus cataphractus, of coastal waters of northern Europe.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Cottidae (sculpins) > member of genus Cottus (bull-head) > cottus cataphractus (pogge)
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a1672 F. Willughby Ichthyogr. (1686) Tab. N. 6 2 Cataphractus supinus Schonfeldij. 3 idem. a Pogge.
1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling ii. xxix. 137 The Pogge..is about two Hands breadth in Length.
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Pogge,..a sort of Bull-Head, the Cottus cataphractus of Linnæus, a fish having the head larger than the body.
1872 Chambers's Encycl. II. 423/1 A sea-fish of a nearly allied genus (Aspidophorus) is sometimes called the Armed Bullhead; it is also known as the Pogge.
1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 252/2 Around the British Isles one of the most common inshore fishes is the pogge or armed bullhead, Agonus cataphractus.
1978 A. Wheeler Key Fishes N. Europe 224 Poachers or Pogges. A small family (Agonidae) of mainly Arctic marine fishes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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