coppy

comparative more coppy · superlative most coppy

1. informalLike 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

plural coppies

1. UKdialectalA low stool.

plural coppies

1. alternativeAlternative form 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

plural coppies

1. obsoleteObsolete form of copy.

present singular third person coppies · participle present coppying · participle past coppied · past coppied

1. obsoleteObsolete form of copy.