scup
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See also: scúp
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ʌp
Etymology 1[edit]
Shortened form of Narragansett mishcùp (“porgy”) or its plural mishcùppaûog. The singular was also borrowed as mishcup, while another shortening of the plural yields the synonym paugie.[1] The word was also borrowed as scuppaug.
Noun[edit]
scup (plural scup or scups)
- A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy.
- 1995, “sheepshead”, entry in Percy Russell, Anita Williams, The Nutrition and Health Dictionary, page 391,
- A saltwater fish, a cousin of porgies and scups. The sheepshead has large, broad incisor teeth, much like a sheep.
- 2006, Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson, Life in the Chesapeake Bay, page 276:
- Scup, in the Bay also called porgy, maiden, and fairmaid, are rather plain-looking fish — dull silver with 12 to 15 indistinct vertical stripes, flecked with light blue on their sides.
- 2007 August 8, Brett Martin, “First a Hook, Then Ink: An Artist’s Catch”, in New York Times[1]:
- On a lark, he took a small scup, or porgy, and a stamp pad and demonstrated how to make a print.
- 1995, “sheepshead”, entry in Percy Russell, Anita Williams, The Nutrition and Health Dictionary, page 391,
Translations[edit]
fish in Stenotomus chrysops
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Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
scup (plural scups)
References[edit]
- “scup”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “scup”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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