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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States
2: lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States [syn: porgy, scup]
3: porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America [syn: scup, southern porgy, southern scup, Stenotomus aculeatus]
4: found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish [syn: scup, northern porgy, northern scup, Stenotomus chrysops]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural scup; also scups) Etymology: short for scuppaug, modification of Narragansett mishcùppaûog Date: circa 1848 a porgy (Stenotomus chrysops) occurring along the Atlantic coast of the United States chiefly from North Carolina to Maine and used as a panfish

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. an E. American fish, Stenostomus chrysops, a kind of porgy. Etymology: Narraganset mishcup thick-scaled f. mishe large + cuppi scale

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Scup Scup, n. [D. schop.] A swing. [Local, U.S.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Scup Scup, n. [Contr. fr. American Indian mishc[`u]p, fr. mishe-kuppi large, thick-scaled.] (Zo["o]l.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug. Note: The same names are also applied to a closely allied Southern species. (Stenotomus Gardeni).