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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
scup is a noun meaning "flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States". It carries 4 recorded senses.
flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States
lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States
porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America
found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scup come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.