Middle English Dictionary Entry
copped ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | copped ppl. Also coppet. |
| Etymology | From cop summit, peak. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Rising or coming to a peak; peaked, pointed; (b) of a bird: crested; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.107].
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.225 : Þere is also at Rome a wonder copped pilour [L pyramis], and is Romulus pyler.
- ?c1475 Direct.Sailing in Hak.Soc.79 (Lnsd 285)21 : Ye shall not faile much of Stepilhorde; he risith all rounde, as it were a Coppid hille.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)234/6 : That noose is beste to Prayse that is meenly longe..the butte not ouer coppyt ne ouer Platte ne stowpynge.
b
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)280 : Ke geline huppe poune et patille: a henne coppet [vr. coppid] leith and kakeles.
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)310 : Et deplume la cocheuyz; And pulluth a coppid larke.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)151b/b : Lapwynke..is coppide on þe heuede.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.A.1634 : Som [women]..Stonde on her tiptos as copped as a larke, Put out hir voyse and alowde woll synge That all the strete therof shall ryngge.
c
- (1195) CRR Rich.I in Pipe R.Soc.1478 : Galfridus de Coppedoc.
- (1258) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)24 : La Coppedehall(e).
- (1261) EPNSoc.7 (Sus.)481 : Coppetebeche.
- a1500(1298) Cart.Boarstall in OHS 88182 : Usque Coppedheggh.
2.
(a) Haughty, supercilious; (b) 'heaped up', utmost.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)123 : Thilk wommen whiche maken hem silf so wise bi the Bible..and ben ful coppid of speche anentis clerkis, and avaunten and profren hem silf..forto argue and dispute aȝens clerkis.
- c1450(c1398) Paris St.Christina (Arun 168)206 : She saide my doughter was she noghte, Thus coppide, the kene one me begane; She braste my goddes so richely wrouthe.
b
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)802 : Crystis coppyde curse go with yow!