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coppy en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From cop + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Like or resembling a cop (police officer).
   • "You'll get pinched if you try to go in swimming there," Jack warned. "You needn't think there are more no cops because you're out of New York. They have real coppy cops out here." 1912, George Harvey Ralphson, Boy Scouts in a Motor Boat:

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coppy en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From a diminutive (with + -y) of Middle English *cop, found in Middle English copstole, copstule (“a kind of stool”).

Meanings

1. (UK, dialectal) A low stool.

Forms

coppy en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

From Middle English copy, a back-formation from copies, copyes, koppis (“coppice, copse”), mistaken as a plural.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of coppice.
   alt of coppice
   • But New England’s shut down, so is Colwick Wood: yes, it’s fair haunting to go through that coppy and see Colwick Wood standing there deserted among the trees, and bushes growing up all over the pit-head, and the lines red rusty. It’s like death itself, a dead colliery. 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter IX, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, pages 124-125:

Forms

coppy en · NOUN · etymology 4

Meanings

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of copy.
   alt of copy

Forms

coppy en · VERB · etymology 4

Meanings

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of copy.
   alt of copy

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