scupn.1
/skʌp/, U.S. /skəp/ U.S.
A swing.
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1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Scup... A New York word.
1851 S. Warner Wide Wide World I. xi. 140 A scup!—maybe you don't know it by that name [said Mr. Van Brunt]; some folks call it a swing.
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scupn.2
/skʌp/, U.S. /skəp/ U.S.
The fish Pagrus argyrops; = paugy n.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Pagrus or Chrysophrys (schnapper)
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1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Scup.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Porgy or Paugie.., a fish of the sparus family, common in the waters of New England and New York... It is singular that one half the original name, scup, should be retained for this fish in Rhode Island, and the other half, paug, changed into paugie or porgy, in New York.
1870 Putnam's Mag. 6 525 Porgy, Scup, and Scuppaug, names..in different sections of the Northern States.
1873 S. Powel in Rep. U.S. Fish Commission 1871–2 74 The scup are known to be schooling, wandering fish of the high seas, and come from the Gulf Stream and from the Florida Cape.
1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 161 I consumed a few by reading the Sun in its entirety, including such stop-press items as the news that Luna moths frequently attain a wing span of four inches and that the scup, or porgy, feeds on plankton.
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scupv.
/skʌp/, U.S. /skəp/ U.S.
(See quot. 1848.)
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1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms To Scup..to swing. Common in New York.
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