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Porgy vs Porky - What's the difference?

porgy | porky |

As nouns the difference between porgy and porky

is that porgy is any of several fish of the family Sparidae; the sea bream while porky is a lie.

As an adjective porky is

resembling or characteristic of pork.

porgy

English

Noun

(porgies)
  • Any of several fish of the family Sparidae; the sea bream.
  • # In particular, the scup (paugie).

    • References

    porky

    English

    Etymology 1

    From

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling or characteristic of pork.
  • * 2010 , Victor J. Banis, The Blood of Love (page 113)
    • It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats.
  • (slang) Rather fat.
    • Synonyms
    * (rather fat) chubby, chunky, tubby

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from (pork pie)

    Noun

    (porkies)
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) A lie.