morgay
(ˈmɔːgeɪ)
Also morghi. In some Dicts. erron. morgray.
[a. Cornish (and Welsh) morgi, f. môr sea + ci dog.]
The dog-fish, esp. the lesser spotted dog-fish.
| a 1672 Willughby Hist. Pisc. (1686) 64 Mustelus Stellaris tertius Bellonii. The Rough Hound or Morgay, Cornub. 1752 J. Hill Hist. Anim. 303 We, in Cornwall, call it the rough Hound or Morgay. 1828 Fleming Brit. Anim. 165 Scyllium Catulus. Bounce or Morgay. 1828–32 Webster, Morgray. 1862 Couch Brit. Fishes I. 16 In the West of Cornwall it [the Rough Hound] is used to make what is there valued as Morghi soup. |