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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy..
1995, “sheepshead”, entry in Percy Russell, Anita Williams, The Nutrition and Health Dictionary, page 391, A saltwater fish, a cousin of porgies and scups. The sheepshead has large, broad incisor teeth, much like a sheep.
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.
Scup, in the Bay also called porgy, maiden, and fairmaid, are rather plain-looking fish — dull silver with 12 to 15 indistinct vertical stripes, flecked with light blue on their sides.
On a lark, he took a small scup, or porgy, and a stamp pad and demonstrated how to make a print.
Use scup when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scup means A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy..
Common synonyms include porgy, northern porgy, southern porgy, stenotomus chrysops.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1995, “sheepshead”, entry in Percy Russell, Anita Williams, The Nutrition and Health Dictionary, page 391, A saltwater fish, a cousin of porgies and scups. The sheepshead has large, broad incisor teeth, much like a sheep.
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