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Scup  n.  A swing. (Local, U.S.)





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"Scup" Quotes from Famous Books



... "kittly-benders," or simply "benders." In different latitudes the phrase varies,—one-half of it going to Plymouth Colony, and the other abiding in Massachusetts Bay. And this tendency to dismember a word is curiously shown in that savory fish which the Indian christened "scup-paug." Eastward he swims as "scup," while at the Manhattan end of the Sound he is fried as "porgie." And apropos of him, let us note a curious instance of the tenacity of associated ideas. The street boys of our day and early home were ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various
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Words linked to "Scup" :   Stenotomus aculeatus, northern scup, porgy, southern scup, northern porgy, southern porgy


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