pogge

[ pog ]
/ pɒg /

noun

a poacher, Agonus cataphractus, common near the British Isles and ranging north to Greenland and Iceland.
Also called armed bullhead.

Origin of pogge

First recorded in 1665–75; origin uncertain

Words nearby pogge

poets are born, not made, pogamoggan, pogany, pogey, pogey bait, pogge, pogo, pogo stick, pogonia, pogoniasis, pogonion

Example sentences from the Web for pogge

  • Wissmann and Pogge also met them a few years ago in their journey to Nyangwe.

    Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 |Various

  • Crimes are punished by excessive administrations of the drug, which in the end stupefy the criminal (Pogge, Wolff).

    The Races of Man |Joseph Deniker

  • A name on the west coast of Scotland for the pogge, or miller's thumb (Cottus cataphractus).

    The Sailor's Word-Book |William Henry Smyth

British Dictionary definitions for pogge

pogge
/ (pɒɡ) /

noun

Also called: armed bullhead a European marine scorpaenoid fish, Agonus cataphractus, of northern European waters, with a large head, long thin tail, and body completely covered with bony plates: family Agonidae
any other fish of the family Agonidae

Word Origin for pogge

C18: of unknown origin