Scup

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A Swing.

II. Scup ·noun 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.

Related Words

scup
1) (Indian, shcup-pauog. Roger Williams.) A fish abounding in the waters of New York and New England...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.