scad
Lots and lots
Scad has two unrelated meanings.
The fish called scad is a small, silvery member of the jack family, found in warm seas worldwide.
Separately, scads means a large quantity: We have scads of time, scads of money.
The plural scads almost always appears with "of" and emphasizes abundance.
plenty
Sufficient quantity, and then some
tons · oodles · slew · bunch · mass · pile · stack · boatload · multitude · profusion
mackerel
Swift, oily ocean fish
pelagic · forage · schooling · hardtail · fishing · angler · trolling · chum · live bait · reef
- Atlantic fishAtlantic cod, Atlantic salmon, haddock, pollock, pollack
- ocean fishsalmon, tuna, cod, halibut, mackerel
- tropical fishclownfish, angelfish, butterflyfish, parrotfish, triggerfish
- baitfishanchovy, menhaden, sardine, shiner, minnow
- forage fishanchovy, herring, sardine, menhaden, sprat
- West African fishtilapia, lungfish, threadfin, cichlid