scuppernong

Named after the Scuppernong River and Lake in North Carolina near which the grapes were first found and cultivated. Probably from an Algonquian word.^[1] Both senses, "grape" and "wine", are first found in documents from the 1800s-1820s.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskʌpənɒŋ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈskʌ.pəɹˌnɔŋ/, /ˈskʌ.pəɹˌnɑŋ/
• Hyphenation: scup‧per‧nong

scuppernong (plural scuppernongs)

1. A large greenish-bronze grape native to the Southeastern United States, a variety of the muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia).
   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     Plucking an occasional camellia, getting a squirt of hot milk from Miss Maudie Atkinson’s cow on a summer day, helping ourselves to someone’s scuppernongs was part of our ethical culture, but money was different.

2. A sweet, golden or amber-colored US wine made from this variety of grape.

• A great many alternative forms and pronunciations of this word are found. The most common, attested since the 1820s-40s, is scuppernon / scuppanon /ˈskʌp.əɹ.ˌnɔn/, /ˈskʌp.ə.ˌnɔn/. Scupperdine / scuppadine is also encountered; this is properly the name of a scuppernong-muscadine cross.