choop, choup North. dial. and Sc.
The hip or fruit of the wild-rose.
| 1820 Blackw. Mag. Nov. 201 (Jam.) ‘A hale regiment o' guid aik cudgels, every ane o' them as like my ane as ae choup is like to another.’ 1847 Halliwell, Choups, hips, the fruit of briars. North. 1872 J. P. Morris Maggie Bell in Lancash. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Her cheeks were rosy as a choup. 1881 J. Shaw in Gd. Words Oct. 716 Choops, that is the heps of the wild rose. 1886 Britten & H. Plant-n. |