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▪ I. sculpin, n.|ˈskʌlpɪn|
Also 8 scolping, sculpion, 9 skulpin, sculpen, sculping.
[? Corruption of scorpene.]
1. A name for various small worthless fish having a spiny appearance:
a. A fish of the genus Callionymus, e.g. C. draco;
b. A fish of the genus Cottus, e.g. C. virginianus;
c. Hemitripterus hispidus or americanus;
d. Scorpæna guttata (see scorpene); also † sculpin fish.
1672W. Hughes Amer. Physit. 7 A Sculpin Fish..called by us in those parts, the Sea Hedge-Hog. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 342 The Sea Porcupine, or a sort of Sculpion. 1767tr. Cranz' Greenland I. 95 The Ulkes, scorpius marinus, which we call Toadfish, or in Newfoundland Scolping. 1778Cook Voy. Pacific iv. v. (1784) II. 379 We caught a few sculpins about the ship. a1849Hawthorne Twice-told T., Village Uncle, The very air was fishy, being perfumed with dead sculpins, hardheads, and dogfish. 1860O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. i, Now the Sculpin (Cottus Virginianus) is a little water-beast which pretends to consider itself a fish. 1884Goode, etc. Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. 258 ‘Deep-water Sculpin’... This fish, Hemitripterus hispidus or H. americanus, attains the length of two feet, and is conspicuous by reason of its russet-orange or brick-red colors [etc.]. 1890E. Gosse Life of P. H. Gosse 114 The large, richly coloured sculpen (Cottus), so common in the clear water round the wharves of Carbonear.
2. transf. A mean, worthless person or animal.
1833Marryat P. Simple ii, What are you gaping at, you young sculping? 1836Haliburton Clockm. Ser. i. xxvii, Go along, you old sculpin [a horse], and turn out your toes. 1877S. O. Jewett Deephaven (1893) 105 Ye see the miser'ble sculpin thought I'd never stop to open the goods.
▪ II. ˈsculpin, a. U.S.|ˈskʌlpɪn|
[f. prec.]
Worthless, despicable.
1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 126 Existence on such sculpin terms,..What is it all but dross to me. |