scup

Meaning

Noun

• A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops (species), of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy.
• A swing.

Origin

• Shortened form of Narragansett mishcup 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.