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Coup, cowp v.1. 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. Coup, cowp v.1 Sc. and north. dial. [a. ON. kaup-a to buy, bargain, barter, exchange, Gothic kaupôn to traffic, trade, buy and sell, OSax. côpôn, OHG. choufôn, OE. céapian: see CHEAP v. A northern word, the senses of which run parallel to those of the cognate COPE from LG., of which it is often viewed as a mere dialectal variant.]

1   † 1.  trans. To buy; fig. to abye, pay for, suffer for. Obs.

2 c. 1300.  Havelok, 1800. ‘No,’ quodh on, ‘þat shaltou coupe,’ And bigan til him to loupe.

3   2.  To exchange, barter.

4 c. 1610.  Sir J. Melvil, Mem. (1683), 2. He had been couped from hand to hand, sometimes kept against his will as a captive.

5 1674.  Ray, N. C. Words (1691), 18. Coup, to exchange or swap; Horse coupers, Horse-buyers.

6 1808.  Jamieson, Coup, cowp, to exchange, to barter.

7 1855.  Robinson, Whitby Gloss., To Coup, to exchange. ‘Will you coup seats with me?’… To have the ‘couping word,’ the last or decisive word which shall fix the bargain or exchange.

8 1863.  in Robson, Bards of Tyne, 356. There’s Billy the Barber for coupin’ see cliver.

9 Mod. Sc.  I’ll coup knives with you.

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