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Copped. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Copped ppl. a. Now chiefly dial. Also 6–7 copt, 7 coppet, coped, Sc. 7–8 capped, -et, -it, (5 kopeth). [f. COP sb.2 head, etc. + -ED2. The relation of 4 b is somewhat uncertain.]

1   † 1.  ? Having the top cut off; polled. Obs. (OE.)

2   So usually explained, but the sense may be as in 2.

3 900.  in Thorpe, Diplom., 145 (Bosw.). Andlang weʓes on ða coppedan ac.

4 939.  in Kemble, Cod. Diplom., V. 240. To ðan coppedan þorne.

5   2.  ‘Rising to a top or head’ (J.); peaked.

6 1432–50.  trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 225. A wonder copped pilour.

7 1460.  Lybeaus Disc., 131, in Ritson, Met. Rom., II. 6. Hys schon wes with gold ydyght, And kopeth as a knyght.

8 1494.  Fabyan, Chron., V. cxxiii. 101. A lytle coppyd hyll.

9 1500.  Ortus Voc., in Promp. Parv., 91. Milleus, a copped shoo.

10 1547.  Boorde, Introd. Knowl., xxx. 199. Coppyd thinges standeth vpon theyr [women’s] hed, within ther kerchers, lyke … a gose podynge.

11 1576.  Gascoigne, Steele Gl., Epil. Women … with high copt hattes, and fethers flaunt a flaunt.

12 1608.  Shaks., Per., I. i. 101. The blind mole casts Copp’d hills towards heaven.

13 1664.  Evelyn, Sylva, 101. The form of a copped brown Houshold-loaf.

14 a. 1697.  Aubrey, Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719), II. 39. They shew you … a copped Hill, whereon … stood formerly a Castle.

15 1713.  Derham, Phys.-Theol., IV. ii. 94. The Pupil … round, and the Cornea Copped, or Conical.

16 1749.  Phil. Trans., XLVI. 146. This [Echinite] is greatly copped, the Apex lying very high.

17 1884.  J. Purves, in Gd. Words, Nov., 772/2. He talks volubly of the moles, worms, and traps, and the copped hills.

18   † b.  In the following the sense may be ‘heaped up, formed into a tumulus’: cf. COP sb.2 4, 5.

19 a. 1552, 1605.  [see COP v.1 1].

20 1611.  Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit., x. (1614), 19/2. Hubba the Dane … was there … vnder a heape of copped stones interred.

21 c. 1630.  Risdon, Surv. Devon (1714), II. 363. They … piled on him a Heap of copped Stones, as a Trophy to his Memorial.

22   3.  Crested, having a tuft on the head. Now dial.

23 1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XII. xxxviii. (1495), 436. The Lapwynge … is copped on the heed.

24 1570.  Levins, Manip., 49. Copped, cristatus.

25 1611.  Cotgr., Cochevis, the copped Larke; the Larke that hath a little tuft standing on her head.

26 1653.  H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., vi. § 3. 17. We saw Adders, that were copped on the crowns of their heads.

27 1700.  C. Leigh, Nat. Hist. Lanc., Chesh., etc. 195. The copped Wren that fed the Dragoons near Durton.

28 1881.  Dickinson, Cumb. Gloss. 2nd Supp., Copt, Cop-heedit … tufted as some birds are.

29   4.  fig. a. ‘Stuck up’; proud, conceited. dial.

30 1653.  Urquhart, Rabelais, II. ii. The most coped, lofty and high-crested Poets affirme [etc.].

31 1691.  Ray, Collect., Gloss. Northan., 140. Copt, superbus, fastuosus.

32 1695.  Kennett, Par. Antiq., Gloss., Copt in the North is high; as a copt-man, i. e. a proud and high-minded Man.

33 1869.  Peacock, Lonsdale Gloss., Copt, set up, filled with conceit.

34 1878.  Dickinson, Cumbrld. Gloss., Copt, pert, set up, proud.

35   b.  Saucy, peevish, crabbed. Perh. primarily ‘heady.’ Now Sc.

36 c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., I. xx. 123. Thilk wommen whiche maken hem silf so wise bi the Bible … and ben ful coppid of speche anentis clerkis.

37 1597.  James I., Dæmonol., Wks. 120. To these capped creatures, he [the devil] appeares as he pleases.

38 a. 1605.  Montgomerie, Misc. Poems (1887), x. 23. Quhilks are bot cappit vane conceats.

39 1606.  Birnie, Kirk-Buriall (1833), 34. Would not the kempes of the corps-guarde … cudgell him also for his capped conseate?

40 1674.  Ray, N. C. Words, Coppet, saucy, malepert, peremptory; also merry, jolly.

41 1785.  R. Forbes, Poems Buchan Dial., 9 (Jam.). Fight your fill, sin ye are grown Sae unco’ crous and cappit.

42   5.  Comb., as copped-crowned adj. (Cf. cop-crowned (s.v. COP sb.2 8), COPPLE-CROWNED.)

43 1650.  Bulwer, Anthropomet., i. (1653), 10. Scoffing at his coppid crown’d Head, which appeared like the head of a Lapwing. Ibid. (ed. 1), 17. Copt-crown’d, or acuminate heads.

44 a. 1658.  Cleveland, Poems (1665), 92 (N.). From a Coppid crown Tenent prick’d up by a Brother.

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