Scupper

Definition: Scupper

Scupper

Noun

1. Drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard.

Verb

1. Wait in hiding to attack.

2. Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scupper" was first used: 1420s. (references)

Etymology: Scupper \Scup"per\, noun. [Old French expression escopir, escupir, to spit, perhaps for escospir, from Latin expression ex conspuere to spit upon; prefix con- spuere to spit. Compare to Spit, verb.]. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Scupper

Conduit

Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.

Crosswords: Scupper

Expressions using "scupper": scupper hole ♦ scupper hose ♦ scupper nail ♦ scupper plug ♦ scupper smb. chances. Additional references.

Albanian

vrimë shkarkimi në kuvertë, kap në befasi. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разстройвам напълно, шпигат, нападам внезапно и избивам, нападам и потопявам, побеждавам (beat, conquer, defeat, down, fight down, foil, have, lace, lick, master, mop up, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overthrow, overturn, pip, polish off, prevail, thrash, triumph, trounce, vanquish, whip, whop, win, worst, zap). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�板�'水�". (various references)

Czech

potopit (go under, plunge, scutum, sink), jícen lodní odpadové trubice. (various references)

Danish

spygat (deck drain, drain hole, outlet, scupper hole, washports), tvaerdraen (cross-drain), afløb i kantsten (kerb inlet), afløb (drain-pipe, outlet-pipe, waste-pipe). (various references)

Dutch

spuipijp, spuigat (deck drain, scupper hole), waterloospoort (washports), overlooppijp, hemelwaterafvoer in de trottoirband (kerb inlet), dwars over weg lopende greppel of geul (cross-drain). (various references)

Finnish

spygatti (deck drain, scupper hole), valumisreikä (deck drain, scupper hole), valumisaukko (deck drain, scupper hole), reunakiveyksen aukko (kerb inlet), poikittaisoja (cross-drain), nieluaukko (deck drain, scupper hole). (various references)

French

saboter, sabord, tuyau de dalotage, ouverture de coque, fosse transverse, dalot d'évacuation, dalot (scupper hole), bouche d'égout de bordure. (various references)

German

Speigatt (deck drain, scupper hole). (various references)

Greek 

κρασπεδοστόμιον υπονόμου (kerb inlet), στραγγιστήριον εγκάρσιον (cross-drain), μπούνι (bumblebee), μπουνιά (punch), ευδιαίος (deck drain, scupper hole, washports), ευδίαιος, οπή πλοίου, οχετόσ πλοίου, θυρίδα υδροφράκτη (washports). (various references)

Hungarian

padlónyílás. (various references)

Italian

sabordo (washports), portello (hatch, port, porthole, wicket), ombrinale per l'evacuazione dell'acqua, ombrinale (deck drain, drainage hole, limber hole, scupper hole, watercourse), far naufragare (shipwreck), canaletto trasversale (cross-drain), bocchette di scarico (kerb inlet), autoaffondare (scuttle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'水�" (osculum). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はいすい�"う (drainage, osculum). (various references)

Korean 

갑판배수공. (various references)

Manx

sinkeil (founder, sink, sinking), scuppyr, limmer (passage, passage way). (various references)

Pig Latin

upperscay.(various references)

Portuguese

embornal (game-bag, haversack, nosebag, scrip). (various references)

Russian 

шпигат. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potući (destroy, drub, outclass, outfight, trounce), otvor za isticanje vode. (various references)

Spanish

imbornal (deck drain, kerb inlet, outlet, scupper hole). (various references)

Swedish

spygatt, tvärsgående dike (cross-drain), tvärdike (cross-drain), torpedera (torpedo), kullkasta (defeat, disconcert, explode, foil, overthrow, play up with, upset, wreck), dagvattenbrunn (gulley, gully, kerb inlet, road gully, street gully, street inlet, surface water gully). (various references)

Thai

ทำลาย (คำไม่เป็นทางการ), ทางระบายน้ำ. (various references)

Turkish

su alan delik, taş koymak (gum up, put a spoke in smb.'s wheel, stymie), katletmek (butcher, do to death, kill, slaughter, slay), frengi deliği, delerek batırmak, bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), baskınla öldürmek, baltalamak (hamstring, sabotage, sap, undermine, wreck). (various references)

Ukrainian

шпигат, жолоб для стоку води, потопити судно. (various references)

escopir. (various references)

scope. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "scupper": scuppered, scuppering, scuppernong, scuppernongs, scuppers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scupper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scappa, scappe, Schupke, Schuppan, schuppen, Scippa, scipper, scopare, scoper, Scupe, scupter, skupper. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cuppers.

-1 letter: cupper, spruce, supper, uppers.

-2 letters: cruse, cures, curse, ecrus, perps, preps, puces, purse, repps, sprue, sucre, super, upper.

-3 letters: ceps, crus, cues, cups, cure, curs, cusp, ecru, ecus, pecs, peps, perp, prep, puce, pups, pure, purs, recs, repp, reps, rues, ruse, scup, spec, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, user.

-4 letters: cep, cue, cup, cur.

+1 letter: cruppers, prepuces, scuppers, supercop.

+2 letters: scuppered, supercops, uppercase, uppercuts.

+3 letters: curlpapers, porcupines, prepunches, prospectus, scuppering, uppercased, uppercases.

+4 letters: perspicuity, perspicuous, pluperfects, precipitous, precomputes, preoccupies, prepurchase, scuppernong, superscript, uppercasing.

+5 letters: cypripediums, precomputers, prepubescent, prepurchased, prepurchases, prospectuses, scuppernongs, superplastic, superscripts, superspecial.