coppish

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English

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Etymology 1

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From cop +‎ -ish (suffix meaning ‘being like, similar to, typical of’, forming adjectives from nouns).

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Adjective

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coppish (comparative more coppish, superlative most coppish)

  1. (chiefly US, slang) Characteristic of or resembling a cop (police officer).
    Synonyms: coplike, policelike
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Etymology 2

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See capisce.

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Interjection

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coppish

  1. Alternative spelling of capisce
    • 2001, Lil Cromer, Allen R. Pedrick, chapter 3, in Terminal Greed, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 33:
      Simple, I live here so I was nominated. Coppish?
    • 2006, Michael Beres, chapter 21, in The President’s Nemesis, Palm Beach, Fla.: Medallion Press, →ISBN, page 174:
      "After that we'll see." Jake reached out and clasped Walter's shoulder. "Coppish?" Walter smiled broadly. "Coppish, Mr. Serranto."
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Etymology 3

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A variant of codpiece.[1]

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Noun

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coppish (plural coppishes)

  1. (Wales) The fly of a pair of trousers.
    • a. 1954 (date written), Dylan Thomas, “The Holy Six”, in Adventures in the Skin Trade (A New Directions Paperbook; no. 183), New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing Corporation, published 1969, →ISBN, page 129:
      And it was early morning, and the world was moist, when the crystal-gazer's husband, a freak in knickerbockers with an open coppish and a sabbath gamp, came over the stones outside his house to meet the holy travellers.
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References

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  1. ^ Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “COPPISH, sb.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: [], volume I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, [], publisher to the English Dialect Society, []; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 728, column 1.

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