Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus.
- noun A kind of small fishing-boat used in the Bay of Fundy and along the New England coast.
- noun Same as
Lake Tahoe trout (which see, undertrout ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The menhaden.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US
menhaden (fish)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun money received from the state
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They would work long enough to be able to collect Employment Insurance aka "pogy" and then move home again.
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They would work long enough to be able to collect Employment Insurance aka "pogy" and then move home again.
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Yes | No | Report from fisherman14 wrote 24 weeks 2 days ago use pogy during day oof the beach for blues and bass. at night use eels ... its like candy for the bass, they cant resist
I have been roped into a vacation in August in Cape Cod, Mass. It will occur near Wellfleet.
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Yes | No | Report from fisherman14 wrote 24 weeks 2 days ago use pogy during day oof the beach for blues and bass. at night use eels ... its like candy for the bass, they cant resist
I have been roped into a vacation in August in Cape Cod, Mass. It will occur near Wellfleet.
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(Left) The pungent corpses of Gulf menhaden fish, also called commercial pogy, rot in the sunlight along a one-mile stretch of Sea Rim Park on Wednesday, August 10, 2005.
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Boston; he had been in the pogy oil business; he had been in the staging business; he had been in the hotel business in a small way.
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At Revere Beach, shore fishermen are doing well using frozen clams and pogy chunks early and late in the day.
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Bigger bass are lurking underneath; fishing pogy chunks at Lovell Island during the outgoing tide this week, Allison from Go Pogy in Winthrop scored three bass over 40 inches.
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A piece of fresh mullet, ladyfish or pogy will get the crabs chewing.
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A piece of fresh mullet, ladyfish or pogy will get the crabs chewing.
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