scup

n. 变色窄牙鲷

词形变化

scups 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

  2. 1.

    A swing.

    美国 方言

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

porgy

上位词 1

porgy

部分词 1

porgy

词源

Shortened form of Narragansett mishcùp (“porgy”) 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.

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