Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small arctic whale, yielding only about 20 or 25 barrels of oil. supposed to be the young of the bow-head whale.
- noun Same as
porgy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
porgy . - noun A small whale.
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Examples
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What he was saying now like to nobody was "And at that time you couldn't get hold of a poggy" (what - ever that was, brothers), "not if you was to hand over ten million archibalds, so what do I do, eh, I goes down to Turkey's and says I've got this sproog on that morrow, see, and what can he do?"
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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He flapped about with his hands, moved his shoulders up and down and said "Ackle-eeta-oomi-poggy-wo?"
The Mystery of Holly Lane Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1953
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"Ya," said he, "foots is more petter as a poggy on this road," i. e., "feet are better than a buggy."
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907
hernesheir commented on the word poggy
(n): the menhaden.
January 12, 2009