coppish
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From cop + -ish (suffix meaning ‘being like, similar to, typical of’, forming adjectives from nouns).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒpɪʃ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑpɪʃ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒpɪʃ
- Hyphenation: cop‧pish
Adjective[edit]
coppish (comparative more coppish, superlative most coppish)
- (chiefly US, slang) Characteristic of or resembling a cop (“police officer”).
- Synonyms: coplike, policelike
- 2002, Robert B[rown] Parker, chapter 30, in Widow’s Walk, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 136:
- “Are you a policeman?” Conroy said. I gave him my most coppish deadpan stare.
Translations[edit]
characteristic of or resembling a cop — see coplike
Etymology 2[edit]
See capisce.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəˈpiːʃ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈpiʃ/
- Rhymes: -iːʃ
- Hyphenation: cop‧pish
Interjection[edit]
coppish
- Alternative spelling of capisce
Translations[edit]
alternative spelling of capisce — see capisce
Etymology 3[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒpɪʃ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑpɪʃ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒpɪʃ
- Hyphenation: cop‧pish
Noun[edit]
coppish (plural coppishes)
- (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.
Translations[edit]
fly of a pair of trousers — see fly
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
Further reading[edit]
- police officer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “capiche”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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