Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See muscadine.
- n. A cultivated variety of the muscadine grape with sweet yellowish fruit.
- n. A wine made from this grape.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cultivated variety of the muscadine, bullace, or southern foxgrape, Vitis rotundifolia (V. vulpina), of the southern United States and Mexico. It is a valued white- or sometimes purple-fruited grape. Its large berries are well flavored, and peculiar in that all on a bunch do not ripen at once. The ripe berries fall from the vine, and are gathered from the ground.
Wiktionary
- n. A large greenish-bronze grape native to the Southeastern United States, a variety of the muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia).
- n. A sweet, golden or amber-colored American wine made from this variety of grape.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.
WordNet 3.0
- n. amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States
Etymologies
- Named after the Scuppernong River and Lake in North Carolina near which the grapes were first found and cultivated. Probably from an Algonquian word. Both senses, "grape" and "wine", are first found in documents from the 1800s-1820s. (Wiktionary)
- After the Scuppernong River in northeast North Carolina. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The book also turned me on to so many new ingredients, like sorghum, Carolina gold rice, spicy Blenheim ginger ale (which I now order by the case), country ham, scuppernong grapes, and, of course, boiled peanuts (per the bumper sticker, I "brake for" them at any occasion).”
“Image via Wikipedia I was at the Farmers Market yesterday and the air was winey with the scent of scuppernong and muscadine grapes.”
“Dinner dishes include lacquered foie gras with scuppernong a muscadine grape and venison loin with chanterelle mushrooms.”
“The next day was the perfect fall day, bright and cool, with a high blue sky and the welcome smell of a change of season, The tea olive trees in the first full bloom, scuppernong grapes and pine straw heated up by the sun and soon, with all of that, the smell of mown grass.”
“Then she went to her old refrigerator, brought out a full bottle of scuppernong wine and two chilled jelly glasses and poured us each a heavy slug.”
“Words of moral indignation rose to her lips but suddenly she remembered the Yankee who lay under the tangle of scuppernong vines at Tara.”
“Dr. Meade had not thought to warn her that a woman in her condition should not drink, for it never occurred to him that a decent woman would drink anything stronger than scuppernong wine.”
““Pork, what of the corn whisky Pa buried in the oak barrel under the scuppernong arbor?””
“The Yankee lay in the shallow pit Scarlett had scraped out under the scuppernong arbor.”
“There was an enormous orchard and a tremendous big [unknown] scuppernong arbor.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scuppernong’.
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Grapes
sour grapes, grape, grapes, raisin, Nehi grape soda, Petit Verdot, Concord, Pinot Meunier, scuppernong, muscadine, Catawba, seedless and 112 more...
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malechi's list
peculiar, obscure, quirky, obsolete
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Chit Chat
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From the Algonquin et al.
Words derived from the innumerable languages of native Americans and the First Nations of Canada. I want to shine some light on this underexposed etymological background to so many common (and som...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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S is for sionnach
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
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looked up
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for scuppernong.
knitandpurl "There will be snide routines about the local wine. Our table isn't ready, and I walk ahead of my daughter and take a seat at the bar. To spite her, I order a scuppernong champagne."
- From "The Landlord" by Wells Tower, in The New Yorker, September 13, 2010, p 69 Sep 15, 2010
malechi "Maudie Atkinson told me you broke down her scuppernong arbor this morning. She's going to tell your father and then you'll wish you'd never seen the light of day!"
--Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
I read To Kill a Mockingbird a long time ago, but whenever I hear the title, I think of the film and Gregory Peck, a great actor and orator. I never get tired of hearing his voice. Dec 7, 2008
chained_bear No, no, it has to be a verb! Silly Reesetee. Verbing weirds language. Oct 9, 2007
reesetee You're weirds, chained_bear. ;-> Oct 9, 2007
chained_bear It does sound like a mollusk.
I like mollusc better, though it weirds me out.
I also like weirds. Oct 9, 2007
skipvia We used to call these "push grapes" because you had to squeeze the bitter skin in order to push the very sweet pulp into your mouth. They grew uncultivated in our woods. Oct 9, 2007
reesetee Oh, I don't think it's boring! (Although a cookie is much preferred....) Anyway, this word always reminds me of some kind of mollusk. ;-) Jun 23, 2007
arby NOUN: 1. See muscadine. 2a. A cultivated variety of the muscadine grape with sweet yellowish fruit. b. A wine made from this grape.
ETYMOLOGY: After the Scuppernong River in northeast North Carolina.
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How boring! I thought it was a kind of cookie. (I think I'm confusing it with snickerdoodle, which is an equally awesome word.) Jun 23, 2007