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coppish en · ADJ · etymology 1

From cop + -ish (suffix meaning ‘being like, similar to, typical of’, forming adjectives from nouns).

(US, slang) Characteristic of or resembling a cop (“police officer”).
- “Are you a policeman?” Conroy said. I gave him my most coppish deadpan stare. 2002, Robert B[rown] Parker, chapter 30, in Widow’s Walk, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 136:
- "I know I'm going to sound suspicious and very policelike—" / "You're allowed to sound coppish … it's in your DNA," Laura assured him. 2011, Holly Jacobs [pseudonym; Holly Fuhrmann], chapter 5, in A Father’s Name (Harlequin SuperRomance), Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 106:

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See capisce.

(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of capisce.
alt of capisce
- Simple, I live here so I was nominated. Coppish? 2001, Lil Cromer, Allen R. Pedrick, chapter 3, in Terminal Greed, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 33:
- "After that we'll see." Jake reached out and clasped Walter's shoulder. "Coppish?" Walter smiled broadly. "Coppish, Mr. Serranto." 2006, Michael Beres, chapter 21, in The President’s Nemesis, Palm Beach, Fla.: Medallion Press, →ISBN, page 174:

A variant of codpiece.

(Wales) The fly of a pair of trousers.
- And it was early morning, and the world was moist, when the crystal-gazer's husband, a freak in knickerbockers with an open coppish and a sabbath gamp, came over the stones outside his house to meet the holy travellers. a. 1954 (date written), Dylan Thomas, “The Holy Six”, in Adventures in the Skin Trade (A New Directions Paperbook; no. 183), New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing Corporation, published 1969, →ISBN, page 129:

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