scup

See also: scúp

English

Stenotomus chrysops

Wikispecies

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌp

Etymology 1

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. The word was also borrowed as scuppaug.

Noun

scup (plural scup or scups)

1. 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.

Translations

fish in Stenotomus chrysops

• Finnish: amerikanhammasahven

Etymology 2

From Dutch schop.

Noun

scup (plural scups)

1. (US, dialect) A swing.

References

• “scup”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• PCUs, cups, UPCs, CPSU, USCP, cusp, CPUs, Cups, UCPs, CUPS, UPSC