scaup

English edit

Lesser scaup female

Etymology edit

See scalp (“a bed of oysters or mussels”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /skɔːp/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɔːp

Noun edit

scaup (plural scaups or scaup)

Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus Aythya.
- 2009 March 29, Deborah Baldwin, “A Waterside Village With a Big-City Backdrop”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  Or spot gaggles of Canada geese, ducks and scaups flying over schools of bluefish.
(Scotland) Alternative form of scalp (“a bed or stratum of shellfish”)

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

diving-duck

Bulgarian: планинска потапница f (planinska potapnica)
Czech: polák
Dutch: topper (nl)
Finnish: lapasotka (fi)
German: Bergente (de) f
Hungarian: hegyi réce
Japanese: 鈴鴨 (suzugamo)
Maori: raipo, pāpango, kaiharopia, matapōuri, matamatapōuri, matapo, pōkeke, tītīpōrangi
Polish: ogorzałka (pl)
Russian: че́рнеть (ru) f (čérnetʹ)

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