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Scug vs Scup - What's the difference?

scug | scup |

As nouns the difference between scug and scup

is that scug is (scottish) shade, shadow while scup is scoop (cup- or bowl-shaped tool).

As a verb scug

is (scottish|transitive) to shelter; to protect.

scug

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Scottish) shade, shadow.
  • (Scottish) a shelter, a sheltered place (especially on the side of a hill).
  • (dated, slang) A lower-school or inferior boy.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1881 , author=C. E. Pascoe , title=Everyday Life in our Public Schools , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=312 , passage= Scug , Et[on]. Har[row]. Negatively, a boy who is not distinguished in person, in games, or social qualities. Positively, a boy of untidy, dirty, or ill-mannered habits; one whose sense of propriety is not fully developed.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1969 , author=Ralph G. Martin , title=Jennie: the Life of Lady Randolph Churchill: The romantic years, 1854-1895 , publisher=Prentice-Hall , url= , isbn= , page=54 , passage=A scug' was an untidy, ill-mannered , and morally undeveloped boy, a shirker at games, bumptious and arrogant. If not naturally vicious, a ' scug was considered degenerate.}}

    Verb

  • (Scottish) To shelter; to protect.
  • (Scottish) To hide; to take shelter.

    • scup

    English

    (wikipedia scup) (Stenotomus)

    Etymology 1

    Shortened form of (etyl) The full word was borrowed as scuppaug. (Stenotomus)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A fish, ; 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.
  • * 2006 , Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson, Life in the Chesapeake Bay , page 276,
    • 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.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 8, author=Brett Martin, title=First a Hook, Then Ink: An Artist’s Catch, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=On a lark, he took a small scup , or porgy, and a stamp pad and demonstrated how to make a print.}}

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) schop.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, dialect) A swing.

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