coppycoppy-stooln.1
northern dialect.
A low stool.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun] > low
sellc1384
coppy14..
buffet1432
cricket1559
cracket1635
creepie1661
crock1709
donkey1943
donkey stool1945
14.. Burlesque Poem in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 86 Colrakus and copstolus, one gret whyle-barrous.
1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 10 The breyde now on a coppy stuol Sits down.
1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. Coppy, a low stool for a child.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Coppy, Copy, a small stool, generally a three-legged one.
1875 Lancashire Gloss. Coppy-stool.
1885 E. Lynn Linton Autobiogr. Christopher Kirkland I. iii. 57 His supreme pleasure was to sit on his ‘copy’ (a kind of stool).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
coppyadj.n.2
dialect and colloquial.
A. adj.
Having a cop, crested.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a coat > hairy, furry, or woolly > crested or crowned
copped1398
coppled1600
cristate1661
copple-crowned1699
cristated1727
crested1796
crowned1796
coppy1891
1891 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 20 Feb. (Suppl.) S. 528/2 3 large buff coppy hens, 20/- each.
B. n.2
A crested or tufted fowl.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl) > bird having particular physical characteristics
rumpy1836
pile1854
coppy1880
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 14/2 Coppies, tufted fowls.
1885 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 30 Mar. 1248/2 Lancashire coppies and plainheads..special prize for best buff coppy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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