▪ I. ˈcoppy n.1, coppy-stool north. dial.
Also copy, 5 copstole.
[Of uncertain derivation.]
A low stool.
| 14.. Burlesque Poem in Rel. Ant. I. 86 Colrakus and copstolus, one gret whyle-barrous. 1807 J. Stagg Poems (Cumbrld. dial.) 10 The breyde now on a coppy stuol Sits down. 1811 Willan West Riding Gloss., Coppy, a low stool for a child. 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Coppy, Copy, a small stool, generally a three-legged one. 1875 Lancashire Gloss., Coppy-stool. 1885 Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Christ. Kirkland I. iii. 57 His supreme pleasure was to sit on his ‘copy’ (a kind of stool). |
▪ II. ˈcoppy, a. and n.2 dial. and colloq.
[f. cop n.2 + -y.]
A. adj. Having a cop, crested. B. n. A crested or tufted fowl.
| 1880 W. Cornwall Gloss., Coppies, tufted fowls. 1885 Bazaar 30 Mar. 1248/2 Lancashire coppies and plainheads..special prize for best buff coppy. 1891 Ibid. 20 Feb., 3 large buff coppy hens, 20/- each. |
▪ III. coppy, coppyse
obs. ff. coppice.