Scup vs Sheepshead - What's the difference?
scup | sheepshead |
A fish, ; the porgy.
* 1995 , “sheepshead”'', entry in Percy Russell, Anita Williams, ''The Nutrition and Health Dictionary ,
* 2006 , Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson, Life in the Chesapeake Bay ,
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 8, author=Brett Martin, title=First a Hook, Then Ink: An Artist’s Catch, work=New York Times
, passage=On a lark, he took a small scup , or porgy, and a stamp pad and demonstrated how to make a print.}}
A fish of the species .
A trick-taking card game.
As nouns the difference between scup and sheepshead
is that scup is a fish, species: Stenotomus chrysops; the porgy while sheepshead is a fish of the species species: Archosargus probatocephalus.scup
English
(wikipedia scup) (Stenotomus)Etymology 1
Shortened form of (etyl) The full word was borrowed as scuppaug. (Stenotomus)Noun
(en-noun)page 391,
- A saltwater fish, a cousin of porgies and scups . The sheepshead has large, broad incisor teeth, much like a sheep.
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.
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