quop, v. Obs. exc. dial.
(kwɒp)
[Later form of quap v.]
To beat, throb, palpitate.
| a 1658 Cleveland Model New Relig. 32 How Quops the Spirit? In what Garb or Air? 1679 Dryden Limberham iii. ii, Oh, my Eyes grow dim! my Heart quops, and my back aketh. 1681 Ballad Dk. Monmouth in Shaksp. Cent. Praise 387 His great Heart quops his Courage fails. 1848 A. B. Evans Leicestersh. Words, Quop, to throb (used also in Gloucestershire) as in the suppuration of boils and abscesses. 1889 Gissing Both of this Parish I. v. 103 It makes a body's heart quop to hear tell of such a history. |