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单词 pogy
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pogyn.

Brit. /ˈpəʊɡi/, /ˈpɒɡi/, U.S. /ˈpoʊɡi/, /ˈpɑɡi/
Forms: 1800s paugie, 1800s– paugy, 1800s– poggy, 1800s– pogy, 1900s– poggie, 1900s– pogie.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: pauhagen n.
Etymology: Apparently shortened < pauhagen n.; compare -y suffix6.With sense b perhaps compare porgy n.
U.S. regional.
a. A menhaden (genus Brevoortia).Recorded earliest in pogy boat n. at Compounds 1.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > brevoortia tyrannus (menhaden)
old wife1585
yellowtaila1622
whiting1735
shadine1782
hardhead1792
menhaden1792
mossbunker1792
bony fish1815
pauhagen1833
pogy1840
green-tailed shad1884
schoolie1891
1840 N.-Y. Mirror 5 Sept. 87/2 Perhaps we may all of us live to see a Paulding paugy boat.
1846 W. Whitman in Brooklyn Evening Star 23 Jan. in Coll. Writings (1998) I. 246 As to clams and poggies, we are not a bit ashamed of 'em.
1859 4th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. i. 182 Pogies will be caught for the chum and not for the oil.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 385 North of Cape Cod the name Pogy is almost universally in use, while in southern New England the fish is known only as the menhaden.
1949 Sun (Baltimore) 29 July 2/1 Pogies, or menhaden, are good only for their oil and fish-meal content.
1978 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 4 Aug. 16/3 They [sc. bluefish] will jump on live poggies about as fast as you can put them over the side.
1994 Cape Cod Outdoors Summer 25/3 Other predators, such as bass and bluefish, will likely make do with whatever else is handy—herring, pogies, squid and the like.
b. Any of various large surfperches, esp. the redtail surfperch, Amphistichus rhodoterus, of the Pacific coast.
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1884 D. S. Jordan in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 276 On the coast of Oregon the large species [of the surf-fish family] (especially Damalichthys argyrosomus) are called ‘Pogy’ or ‘Porgee’, in allusion to their undoubted resemblance to the scup or porgee of the East.
1900 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 8 Mar. 8/2 Each guest was given a card with a list of fish caught from the ocean pier, or in the vicinity, cooked to order for breakfast..Spanish mackerel, mullet, perch, poggies, [etc.].
1913 J. London Valley of Moon 235 An' we used to go out on the Rock Wall an' catch pogies an' rock cod.
1990 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 10 Aug. 3 Millions of pogies, a type of Pacific perch, have been killed by a mysterious shortage of oxygen in the water.

Compounds

C1.
pogy boat n.
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1840 [see sense a].
1995 P. Jenkins Along Edge of Amer. xli. 273 I rumbled out of the port of Cameron along with the pogy boats, which were headed out for their day of fishing.
pogy fisherman n.
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1949 Sun (Baltimore) 29 July 2/1 Newspaper ads would be tried tomorrow to see whether enough trained pogy-fishermen are available in this area.
1993 Canad. Press (Nexis) 16 Sept. Pogy fishermen and dealers said they had a dismal season this year, with catches down about 80 per cent.
pogy steamer n.
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1913 Oysterman & Fisherman 10 July 31/1 The new pogy steamer E. B. Thomas the largest ever built for the menhaden fishing industry made her official trip off Portland Monday.
1914 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 9 Nov. Some arrangement has been made with the fishermen of the pogy steamers who were stranded at Portsmouth.
C2.
pogy-catcher n. a boat or contrivance used in fishing for menhaden.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Pogy-catcher..a sailing vessel or steamer employed in the capture of menhaden.
1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians ii. 272 A trap for menhaden fishing is known as pogy-catcher.
pogy chum n. Obsolete the refuse from menhaden that remains after its oil has been expressed.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > remains after extraction of animal or fish oil
pomacec1450
scraps1631
fenks1820
pogy chum1858
1858 2nd Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. 1857 i. 69 The fish known as menhaden, and often called..‘poggies’, are..pressed..to extract an oil..what remains after extracting the oil, is called ‘poggy chum’.
1879 Athens (Ohio) Messenger 8 May 7 He has money and has bought guano, phosphate, pogy-chum or fish-scrap.
pogy-gull n. Obsolete rare a kind of gull, perhaps the herring gull, Larus argentatus.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Pogy-gull..a sea-gull found at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
pogy-press n. Obsolete a press for extracting oil from fish.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > oil-press or -mill
pressour1348
press1373
oil mill?1440
oil pressc1720
wedge-press1844
pogy-press1880
1880 Harper's Mag. Aug. 349/1 A cast-off ‘pogy’-press..had been piled upon an old wharf.
pogy seiner n. a boat used in fishing for menhaden with a seine.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > fishing for other species of fish
salmon coble1786
haker1856
swordfisherman1885
tuna boat1903
tuna clipper1929
tunnyman1930
tunny boat1934
pogy seiner1949
1949 Sun (Baltimore) 29 July 2/1 Owners of the Virginia Pogy-Seiner Pluck today planned to advertise for a crew of licensed Maine fishermen.
1998 Boston Globe (Nexis) 9 Sept. 1 We've got these big herring and pogie seiners off the coast, and they just really do a number on the baitfish.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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