Meanings
- not comparableobsoleteatop
Marry she's not in fashion yet; she wears a hood, but it stands acop.
1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
Origin
From a- + cop (“crown of the head”).
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acop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/acop
“acop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/acop. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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