▪ I. cuppy, a. rare.
(ˈkʌpɪ)
[f. cup n. + -y.]
a. Concave like a cup. b. Full of ‘cups’ (see cup n. 5). cuppy lie Golf, the position of a ball when it lies in a ‘cup’ or shallow depression. Said also of the ball.
| 1882 Garden 10 June 399/2 Delicate little Peach-coloured cuppy flowers. [1886 H. Hutchinson Hints Game Golf 32 If it [sc. the ball] lie ‘cuppy’, a jerking stroke will be necessary.] 1892 Sport. & Dram. News 9 Apr. 152/3 Rain..much needed, as the lies are now very ‘cuppy’ in places. 1901 W. J. Travis Pract. Golf (1903) iv. 46 It is better to..play each shot the same way—except in the case of a very cuppy lie. 1922 Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert 88 Mortimer..found his ball in a nasty cuppy lie. |
c. Metall. Of drawn metal, esp. wire: having internal cavities that lead to a cup-and-cone fracture under sufficient tensile stress.
| 1925 A. T. Adam Wire-Drawing x. 197 ‘Cuppy’ wire—i.e. wire which breaks either in drawing or in bending with a very distinct ‘cup and cone’ fracture. 1927 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXV. 470 He desired to ask the author whether internal cuppy fractures were not liable to be produced by wrong manipulation in the drawing. 1958 A. D. Merriman Dict. Metall. 52/1 Cuppy wire... Wire which, though apparently sound, shows on a longitudinal section a series of well-developed internal fractures which open to the surface under bending stresses. |
▪ II. cuppy, a.
Her.: see vairy-cuppy.