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Word entry · 4 letters

scup

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"Atlantic bream"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPart of speech nounSorted cpsuStarts with SEnds with P1 clues
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Definitions

  1. A small Atlantic sea bream valued as a food fish.

Word origin

From Dutch schop.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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