scuppern.
/ˈskʌpə/, U.S. /ˈskəpər/ a. Nautical. Chiefly plural. An opening in a ship's side on a level with the deck to allow water to run away.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in side of vessel > opening to allow escape of water
scupper1592
scupper-hole1599
slopper1622
waterhole1794
water port1865
freeing port1875
1485 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 180 For ijc skopor nayll vjd.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 298 Skopperlethers & Skoppernayles.
1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 34 Voiding scoppers voided out their bloud.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xviii. 292 The whilst those mightie Ships out of their scuppers pour'd Their trayterous cluttred gore.
1669–79 T. Bateman Asia lf. 48 With girdlines from the said cradle to her ports or Scopeboards.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. iv. 330 We made a great quantity of water through our hawse-holes, ports and scuppers.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xvi. 280 Every scupper of her, running blood and water.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iii. xiii. 103 The Hispaniola was rolling scuppers under in the ocean swell.
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1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. To Rdr. sig. 4v Whereas coniectures are certain detections of things vnknowne..I have alwaies thought that they were to be accounted among the skuppers [L. inter autlias] wherewith TIME worketh and draweth Veritie out of Democritus his deepe dungeon.
c. figurative. coarse slang. A depreciatory term for a woman, esp. a prostitute.
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the world > people > person > woman > [noun]
wifeeOE
womaneOE
womanOE
queanOE
brideOE
viragoc1000
to wifeOE
burdc1225
ladyc1225
carlinec1375
stotc1386
marec1387
pigsneyc1390
fellowa1393
piecec1400
femalea1425
goddessa1450
fairc1450
womankindc1450
fellowessa1500
femininea1513
tega1529
sister?1532
minikinc1540
wyec1540
placket1547
pig's eye1553
hen?1555
ware1558
pussy?a1560
jade1560
feme1566
gentlewoman1567
mort1567
pinnacea1568
jug1569
rowen1575
tarleather1575
mumps1576
skirt1578
piga1586
rib?1590
puppy1592
smock1592
maness1594
sloy1596
Madonna1602
moll1604
periwinkle1604
Partlet1607
rib of man1609
womanship?1609
modicum1611
Gypsy1612
petticoata1616
runniona1616
birda1627
lucky1629
she-man1640
her1646
lost rib1647
uptails1671
cow1696
tittup1696
cummer17..
wife1702
she-woman1703
person1704
molly1706
fusby1707
goody1708
riding hood1718
birdie1720
faggot1722
piece of goods1727
woman body1771
she-male1776
biddy1785
bitch1785
covess1789
gin1790
pintail1792
buer1807
femme1814
bibi1816
Judy1819
a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823
wifie1823
craft1829
shickster?1834
heifer1835
mot1837
tit1837
Sitt1838
strap1842
hay-bag1851
bint1855
popsy1855
tart1864
woman's woman1868
to deliver the goods1870
chapess1871
Dona1874
girl1878
ladykind1878
mivvy1881
dudess1883
dudette1883
dudine1883
tid1888
totty1890
tootsy1895
floozy1899
dame1902
jane1906
Tom1906
frail1908
bit of stuff1909
quim1909
babe1911
broad1914
muff1914
manhole1916
number1919
rossie1922
bit1923
man's woman1928
scupper1935
split1935
rye mort1936
totsy1938
leg1939
skinny1941
Richard1950
potato1957
scow1960
wimmin1975
womyn1975
womxn1991
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute
meretrixOE
whoreOE
soiled dovea1250
common womanc1330
putec1384
bordel womanc1405
putaina1425
brothelc1450
harlot?a1475
public womanc1510
naughty pack?1529
draba1533
cat1535
strange woman1535
stew1552
causey-paikera1555
putanie?1566
drivelling1570
twigger1573
punka1575
hackney1579
customer1583
commodity1591
streetwalker1591
traffic1591
trug1591
hackster1592
polecat1593
stale1593
mermaid1595
medlar1597
occupant1598
Paphian1598
Winchester goose1598
pagan1600
hell-moth1602
aunt1604
moll1604
prostitution1605
community1606
miss1606
night-worm1606
bat1607
croshabell1607
prostitute1607
pug1607
venturer1607
nag1608
curtal1611
jumbler1611
land-frigate1611
walk-street1611
doll-common1612
turn-up1612
barber's chaira1616
commonera1616
public commonera1616
trader1615
venturea1616
stewpot1616
tweak1617
carry-knave1623
prostibule1623
fling-dusta1625
mar-taila1625
night-shadea1625
waistcoateera1625
night trader1630
coolera1632
meretrician1631
painted ladya1637
treadle1638
buttock1641
night-walker1648
mob?1650
lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651
lady of pleasure1652
trugmullion1654
fallen woman1659
girlc1662
high-flyer1663
fireship1665
quaedama1670
small girl1671
visor-mask1672
vizard-mask1672
bulker1673
marmalade-madam1674
town miss1675
town woman1675
lady of the night1677
mawks1677
fling-stink1679
Whetstone whore1684
man-leech1687
nocturnal1693
hack1699
strum1699
fille de joie1705
market-dame1706
screw1725
girl of (the) town1733
Cytherean1751
street girl1764
monnisher1765
lady of easy virtue1766
woman (also lady) of the town1766
kennel-nymph1771
chicken1782
stargazer1785
loose fish1809
receiver general1811
Cyprian1819
mollya1822
dolly-mop1834
hooker1845
charver1846
tail1846
horse-breaker1861
professional1862
flagger1865
cocodette1867
cocotte1867
queen's woman1871
common prostitute1875
joro1884
geisha1887
horizontal1888
flossy1893
moth1896
girl of the pavement1900
pross1902
prossie1902
pusher1902
split-arse mechanic1903
broad1914
shawl1922
bum1923
quiff1923
hustler1924
lady of the evening1924
prostie1926
working girl1928
prostisciutto1930
maggie1932
brass1934
brass nail1934
mud kicker1934
scupper1935
model1936
poule de luxe1937
pro1937
chromo1941
Tom1941
pan-pan1949
twopenny upright1958
scrubber1959
slack1959
yum-yum girl1960
Suzie Wong1962
mattress1964
jamette1965
ho1966
sex worker1971
pavement princess1976
parlour girl1979
crack whore1990
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 102/2 Scupper, a prostitute.
1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 265 More familiar terms in current usage refer to women as receptacles for refuse,..as tramp, scow, scupper.
1972 F. Warner Lying Figures iv. 40 Sapph You were always firm... Laz Your limbs and trunk were in angles of contingency. Sapph I was your scupper.
Compounds
General attributive.
scupper-hole n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in side of vessel > opening to allow escape of water
scupper1592
scupper-hole1599
slopper1622
waterhole1794
water port1865
freeing port1875
1599 E. Wright Voiage Erle Cvmberland in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations ii. 163 Euery scupper-hole [1599 Certaine Errors Navig. scup-hole], and other place where it [sc. rain] ranne downe.
1702 Mil. & Sea Dict. (1711) Skuppers, or Skupper-Holes are the Holes close to all the Decks, through the Ship's sides, through which the Water runs out of the Ship from the Decks.
1903 H. Clifford Free Lance x. 82 Her scupper-holes spouting.
scupper-hose n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > fittings on scuppers to keep water out
scupper-leather1497
scupper-hose1769
scupper-shoot1867
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Scuppers The scuppers of the lower deck of a ship of war are usually furnished with a leathern pipe, called the scupper-hoase, which hangs downward from the mouth or opening of the scupper. The intent of this is to prevent the water from entering when the ship inclines under a weight of sail.
scupper-leather n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > fittings on scuppers to keep water out
scupper-leather1497
scupper-hose1769
scupper-shoot1867
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 298 Skopperlethers & Skoppernayles.
1702 Mil. & Sea Dict. (1711) ii. Skupper-Leathers are the round Leathers nail'd over the Skupper-Holes,..which keep out the Sea-Water from coming in, and yet let any Water run out from the Deck.
scupper-nail n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > nails, rivets bolts
rove and clench1336
scupper-nail1485
wrakling1494
ribbing-nail1703
filling-nail1784
Blake's screw1840
in-and-out bolts1841
scarp-bolt1867
pan head1869
1485 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 180 For ijc skopor nayll vjd.
1702 Mil. & Sea Dict. (1711) ii. Skupper-Nails, are little short Nails, with broad Heads, made on purpose to nail on the Skupper Leathers.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 135 Scupper nails.
scupper-shoot n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > fittings on scuppers to keep water out
scupper-leather1497
scupper-hose1769
scupper-shoot1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Scupper-shoots, metal or wooden tubes which carry the water from the decks of frigates to the sea-level.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
scupperv.
/ˈskʌpə/, U.S. /ˈskəpər/ a. transitive. To surprise and massacre. Military slang.
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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [verb (transitive)] > in battle
mowa1522
scupper1885
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Apr. 3/2 The fierce warriors who ‘scupper’ Tommy Atkins within the lines of Suakin.
1885 St. James's Gaz. 31 Mar. 4/1 Being quietly chopped to pieces in their beds, or ‘scuppered’, as some grim wits have termed it.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 98 We preach in advance of the Army, We skirmish ahead of the Church, With never a gunboat to help us When we're scuppered and left in the lurch.
1896 Daily News 19 May 8/1 It was pretty much like a ‘scuppering’ surprise in the Eastern Soudan.
1902 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 333 It's a great relief to find that advance squadron hasn't been scuppered.
b. colloquial. To defeat, ruin, destroy, put an end to.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to
undoc950
shendOE
forfarea1000
endc1000
to do awayOE
aquenchc1175
slayc1175
slayc1175
stathea1200
tinea1300
to-spilla1300
batec1300
bleschea1325
honisha1325
leesea1325
wastec1325
stanch1338
corrumpa1340
destroy1340
to put awayc1350
dissolvec1374
supplanta1382
to-shend1382
aneantizec1384
avoidc1384
to put outa1398
beshenda1400
swelta1400
amortizec1405
distract1413
consumec1425
shelfc1425
abroge1427
downthringc1430
kill1435
poisonc1450
defeat1474
perish1509
to blow away1523
abrogatea1529
to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529
dash?1529
to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531
put in the pot1531
wipea1538
extermine1539
fatec1540
peppera1550
disappoint1563
to put (also set) beside the saddle1563
to cut the throat of1565
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to make a hand of (also on, with)1569
demolish1570
to break the neck of1576
to make shipwreck of1577
spoil1578
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579
cipher1589
ruinate1590
to cut off by the shins1592
shipwreck1599
exterminate1605
finish1611
damnify1612
ravel1614
braina1616
stagger1629
unrivet1630
consummate1634
pulverizea1640
baffle1649
devil1652
to blow up1660
feague1668
shatter1683
cook1708
to die away1748
to prove fatal (to)1759
to knock up1764
to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834
to put the kibosh on1834
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
kibosh1841
to chaw up1843
cooper1851
to jack up1870
scuttle1888
to bugger up1891
jigger1895
torpedo1895
on the fritz1900
to put paid to1901
rot1908
down and out1916
scuppera1918
to put the skids under1918
stonker1919
liquidate1924
to screw up1933
cruel1934
to dig the grave of1934
pox1935
blow1936
to hit for six1937
to piss up1937
to dust off1938
zap1976
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > defeat completely or do for
overthrowc1375
checkmatea1400
to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430
distrussc1430
crusha1599
panga1600
to fetch off1600
finish1611
settle?1611
feague1668
rout1676
spiflicate1749
bowl1793
to settle a person's hash1795
dish1798
smash1813
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
thunder-smite1875
scuppera1918
to put the bee on1918
stonker1919
to wrap up1922
root1944
banjax1956
marmalize1966
a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 7 Ye get knocked out; else wounded—bad or cushy; Scuppered; or nowt except yer feelin' mushy.
1948 L. A. G. Strong Trevannion 186 The one who scuppered his parents and ditched his wife.
1957 Economist 19 Oct. 235/1 The suspicion is still alive that there would have been secret rejoicing in Whitehall if the French Assembly had scuppered the common market.
1957 L. Durrell Justine iii. 155 You can help us scupper them, old man.
1962 Times 2 Mar. 4/2 Underwood followed up his kick ahead and, when scuppered, found Rogers, as ever, there for a try at the post.
1974 Times 7 Feb. 14/8 If the Government wants to welsh on its promise, it will have to scupper Mr Money's Bill.
1981 W. Winward Ball Bearing Run iv. 51 ‘We're scuppered,’ said Fallon... It was a crushing blow.
Draft additions 1993
[ < scupper n. The connection is perhaps explained by Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words (1925) at Scuppered: A man killed in action or falling in heavy weather would naturally roll into the scuppers.] 3. To sink (a vessel) deliberately; = scuttle v.2 1a (with which it is sometimes confused).
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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > cause to suffer shipwreck [verb (transitive)] > cause to sink > intentionally
scuttle1642
scupper1976
1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 763/2 Scupper,..deliberately to sink a ship by opening the seacocks in her hull or by blowing a hole in her side below the waterline. It has, presumably, the same general origin as scuttle.
1982 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 1: U.S.S.R. (B.B.C.) 31 Mar. SU/6992/A1/10 ‘Explosives!’ one of the sailors guessed. ‘They are going to scupper the ship. But why?’
1988 Daily Tel. 24 Dec. 9/1 Hitler's 89ft custom-built yacht, Ostwind, is to be scuppered by..a marine company chief on whose property..the battered relic of the Third Reich was abandoned.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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