choopn.
English regional (northern) and Scottish.
The hip or fruit of the wild-rose.
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hipeOE
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1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 201 (Jam.) ‘A hale regiment o' guid aik cudgels, every ane o' them as like my ane as ae choup is like to another.’
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Choups, hips, the fruit of briars. North.
1872 J. P. Morris Maggie Bell in J. H. Nodal & G. Milnar Gloss. Lancashire Dial. (1875) Her cheeks were rosy as a choup.
1881 J. Shaw in Good Words Oct. 716 Choops, that is the heps of the wild rose.
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names
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