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Scup vs Scud - What's the difference?

scup | scud |

As a noun scup

is scoop (cup- or bowl-shaped tool).

As a proper noun scud is

a soviet-developed ballistic missile.

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.

    • References

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    scud

    English

    Alternative forms

    * skud (dialectal sense only)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang, Scotland) Naked.

    • Verb

    (scudd)
  • To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
  • * I. Taylor
    • the first Nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primæval oceans
  • * Beaconsfield
    • The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven.
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
    • During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in
  • (ambitransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set.
  • (Northumbria) To hit.
  • (Northumbria) To speed.
  • (Northumbria) To skim.

    • References

    * * . Geordie English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of scudding.
  • Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face
  • A gust of wind.
  • (Bristol) A scab on a wound.
  • A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
  • Any swimming amphipod crustacean.
  • (slang, Scotland) Pornography.
  • (slang, Scotland) Irn-Bru.
    • A bottle of Scud