English Explanatory Dictionary

scup

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy.
noun
  1. A swing.

Word forms

scup scups

Etymology

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.

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