po|gy

po|gy «POH gee», noun, plural -gies or (collectively) -gy.

1. a perch of the western coast of the United States that bears live young.

2. = menhaden. (Cf. ↑menhaden)

╂[American English, apparently short for earlier pauhagen, paughaden the menhaden, perhaps < Algonkian (Abnaki) pookagan < a verb, meaning “one manures the land” (apparently the fish was used as fertilizer)]