scup
scup noun: a common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy.
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Noun (1)
scup (plural scup or scups)
- A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy.
- When I was 12 years old, my father got me a boat and I went fishing off of Cape Cod. I hooked a scup and as I was reeling it in, I hooked a 4.5 foot baby thresher shark who proceeded to eat my boat.1975, Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Jaws, spoken by Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss)
- A saltwater fish, a cousin of porgies and scups. The sheepshead has large, broad incisor teeth, much like a sheep.1995, “sheepshead”, entry in Percy Russell, Anita Williams, The Nutrition and Health Dictionary, page 391
Noun (2)
scup (plural scups)
- A swing.
scup meaning in Tamil
scup in Tamil
- நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்
Examples of scup in a sentence
- 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.2006, Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson, Life in the Chesapeake Bay, page 276:
- On a lark, he took a small scup, or porgy, and a stamp pad and demonstrated how to make a print.2007 August 8, Brett Martin, “First a Hook, Then Ink: An Artist’s Catch”, in New York Times:
Forms of scup
| plural | scup |
|---|---|
| plural | scups |
Origin of scup
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.
From Dutch schop.
Words that rhyme with scup
Questions about scup
- What does scup mean?
- Scup means a common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy.
- What is scup in Tamil?
- Scup in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Scup meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use scup in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is scup?
- Scup is a noun.
- What is the plural of scup?
- The plural of scup is scup.
Words near scup in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: scup (page history and authors); scup (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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