▪ I. copped, ppl. a. Now chiefly dial.
(ˈkɒpɪd, kɒpt)
Also 6–7 copt, 7 coppet, coped, Sc. 7–8 capped, -et, -it, (5 kopeth).
[f. cop n.2 head, etc. + -ed2. The relation of 4 b is somewhat uncertain.]
† 1. ? Having the top cut off; polled. Obs. (OE.)
So usually explained, but the sense may be as in 2.
| 900 in Thorpe Diplom. 145 (Bosw.) Andlang weᵹes on ða coppedan ac. 939 in Kemble Cod. Diplom. V. 240 To ðan coppedan þorne. |
2. ‘Rising to a top or head’ (J.); peaked.
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 225 A wonder copped pilour. 1460 Lybeaus Disc. 131 in Ritson Met. Rom. II. 6 Hys schon wes with gold ydyght, And kopeth as a knyght. 1494 Fabyan Chron. v. cxxiii. 101 A lytle coppyd hyll. 1500 Ortus Voc. in Promp. Parv. 91 Milleus, a copped shoo. 1547 Boorde Introd. Knowl. xxx. 199 Coppyd thinges standeth vpon theyr [women's] hed, within ther kerchers, lyke..a gose podynge. 1576 Gascoigne Steele Gl. Epil., Women..with high copt hattes, and fethers flaunt a flaunt. 1608 Shakes. Per. i. i. 101 The blind mole casts Copp'd hills towards heaven. 1664 Evelyn Sylva 101 The form of a copped brown Houshold-loaf. a 1697 Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) II. 39 They shew you..a copped Hill, whereon..stood formerly a Castle. 1713 Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. ii. 94 The Pupil..round, and the Cornea Copped, or Conical. 1749 Phil. Trans. XLVI. 146 This [Echinite] is greatly copped, the Apex lying very high. 1884 Gd. Words Nov. 772/2 He talks volubly of the moles, worms, and traps, and the copped hills. |
† b. In the following the sense may be ‘heaped up, formed into a tumulus’: cf. cop n.1 4, 5.
| a 1552 Leland Collect. (1774) II. 521 A great Hepe of Stones layed coppid up where he was buried. 1605 Stow Ann. 101 A great heape of stones was laide copped vp where Hubba was buried. 1611 Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. x. (1614) 19/2 Hubba the Dane..was there..under a heape of copped stones interred. c 1630 Risdon Surv. Devon (1714) II. 363 They..piled on him a Heap of copped Stones, as a Trophy to his Memorial. |
3. Crested, having a tuft on the head. Now dial.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. xxxviii. (1495) 436 The Lapwynge..is copped on the heed. 1570 Levins Manip. 49 Copped, cristatus. 1611 Cotgr., Cochevis, the copped Larke; the Larke that hath a little tuft standing on her head. 1653 H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. vi. 17 We saw Adders, that were copped on the crowns of their heads. 1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lanc., Chesh., etc. 195 The copped Wren that fed the Dragoons near Durton. 1881 Dickinson Cumb. Gloss. 2nd Suppl., Copt, Cop-heedit..tufted as some birds are. |
4. fig. a. ‘Stuck up’; proud, conceited. dial.
| 1653 Urquhart Rabelais ii. ii, The most coped, lofty and high-crested Poets affirme, etc. 1691 Ray Collect., Gloss. Northan. 140 Copt, superbus, fastuosus. 1695 Kennett Par. Antiq. Gloss., Copt, in the North, high; as a Copt⁓man, i.e. a proud and high-minded man. 1869 Peacock Lonsdale Gloss., Copt, set up, filled with conceit. 1878 Dickinson Cumbrld. Gloss., Copt, pert, set up, proud. |
b. Saucy, peevish, crabbed. Perh. primarily ‘heady’. Now Sc.
| c 1449 Pecock Repr. i. xx. 123 Thilk wommen whiche maken hem silf so wise bi the Bible..and ben ful coppid of speche anentis clerkis. 1597 James I. Dæmonol. Wks. 120 To these capped creatures, he [the devil] appeares as he pleases. a 1605 Montgomerie Misc. Poems (1887) x. 23 Quhilks are bot cappit vane conceats. 1606 W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 34 Would not the kempes of the corps-guarde..cudgell him also for his capped conseate? 1674 Ray N.C. Words, Coppet, saucy, malepert, peremptory; also merry, jolly. 1785 R. Forbes Poems Buchan Dial. 9 (Jam.) Fight your fill, sin ye are grown Sae unco' crous and cappit. |
5. Comb., as copped-crowned adj. (Cf. cop-crowned (s.v. cop n.2 8), copple-crowned.)
| 16.. Fletcher Poems (N.), From a coppid-crown-tenent prickd up by a brother. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. i. (1653) 10 Scoffing at his coppid crown'd Head, which appeared like the head of a Lapwing. Ibid. (ed. 1) 17 Copt-crown'd, or acuminate heads. |
▪ II. copped
obs. f. coped.