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Crossword-Solution: PORGY 5 letters, 73 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Porgy n. The scup.
Porgy n. The sailor's choice, or pinfish.
Porgy n. The margate fish.
Porgy n. The spadefish.
Porgy n. Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes,
of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other
fishes, as the bur fish.

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DuBose Heyward novel, 1925. 1 answer
Gershwin title guy 1 answer
Gershwin operatic hero. 1 answer
Gershwin opera title character 1 answer
Gershwin opera hero 1 answer
Gershwin hero 1 answer
Gershwin fish? 1 answer
East Coast food fish. 1 answer
DuBose Heyward's best-known novel. 1 answer
Gershwin title lover 1 answer
DuBose Heyward novel on which an opera was based 1 answer
DuBose Heyward hero 1 answer
Du Bose Heyward's famous character. 1 answer
Denizen of Catfish Row. 1 answer
Creation of DuBose and Dorothy Heyward. 1 answer
Catfish Row hero 1 answer
Bess's partner 1 answer
Bess's musical partner 1 answer
Lover of Bess, in Gershwin 1 answer
partner Bess follower 1 answer
important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters 1 answer
Scup or pinfish 1 answer
Role for Sidney Poitier. 1 answer
Recent visitor to Moscow. 1 answer
Pulitzer prize play, 1927. 1 answer
Object of Bess's affection 1 answer
Memorable novel of 1925. 1 answer
Bess's man 1 answer
Love of Bess 1 answer
Jazz-opera hero 1 answer
Heyward novel 1 answer
Heyward hero 1 answer
Heyward character 1 answer
He sings "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'." 1 answer
Guy who loves Bess 1 answer
Gershwin's lame beggar 1 answer
Bess's love 1 answer
"Bess, You Is My Woman Now" singer 1 answer
"I Loves You, ___" (Gershwin tune) 1 answer
"__ and Bess" 1 answer
1925 novel adapted into a Gershwin opera 1 answer
A resident of "Catfish Row." 1 answer
AMERICAN sea bream 1 answer
Bess man 1 answer
Bess' love 1 answer
Bess' partner 1 answer
Gershwin title character 2 answers
Novel of 1925. 2 answers
HEYWARD (Du Bose), work of 2 answers
PARGO 2 answers
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Sentences with PORGY (5)

The saddle flew off, and I let go,-- Now didn't my horse make a pretty little show? * * * * * Georgy-porgy, pudding and pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry.
Types of Children's Literature Edited by Walter Barnes 2004
Besides these, porgy, shads, trout, stingre, drum, cat, and black fish, are all used, and taken in great abundance.
An Historical Account Of The Rise And Progress Of The Colonies Of South Carolina And Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt 2005
Sometimes the hooks are baited with bits of clam or porgy, though usually the mackerel, when biting at all, will snap with avidity at a naked hook, if tinned so as to shine in the water.
American Merchant Ships and Sailors Willis J. Abbot 2005
Often and often have I called George, George, Georgy, Georgy Porgy, and he never would come near me, though he heard all the time as plainly as he does now.
The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 2006
The last state census accords to Pocock Island a population of 311, mostly engaged in the porgy fisheries.
Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 2008

Quotes with PORGY (3)

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on classical stories, so any of the Rodgers and Hart musicals certainly influenced me. I was definitely influenced by any of the 'Porgy' songs; I was influenced by 'American Pie.'
Douglas Carter Beane
I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.
Maya Angelou
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, WP, WSJ.

Used 58 times in crossword archives (1945–2023).