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Scup

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    A swing. US, dialectal
  3. 3
    found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish wordnet
  4. 4
    porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America wordnet
  5. 5
    lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States wordnet
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  1. 6
    flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States wordnet

Etymology

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.

Etymology 2

From Dutch schop.

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