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† horcop, horecop Obs.
Also 6 dial. hoorecup, -chup.
[ME. f. hōr whore + ? cop n.2; but the analytical sense is not clear.]
A bastard. Also as a term of abuse.
c1430Syr Tryam. 224 Hyt were not feyre, A horcop to be yowre heyre. c1440Promp. Parv. 246/1 Horcop, bastarde. c1440Gesta Rom. lxvii. 384 (Add. MS.), I gafe souke, and noryshed my ij. hore Coppis. 14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 694/9 Hic pelinguis, a horcoppe. 1578Whetstone Promos ii. iv, T'wyll teache the hoorecup wyt. |