coppy — ozdic

Collocations

4

ADJ.

real

VERB + COPPY

go

COPPY + NOUN

colwick, cops

PREP.

out, through

Definitions

adj

1

Like or resembling a cop (police officer).

"You'll get pinched if you try to go in swimming there," Jack warned. "You needn't think there are more no cops because you're out of New York. They have real coppy cops out here."

noun

1

A low stool.

noun

1

Alternative form of coppice.

But New England’s shut down, so is Colwick Wood: yes, it’s fair haunting to go through that coppy and see Colwick Wood standing there deserted among the trees, and bushes growing up all over the pit-head, and the lines red rusty. It’s like death itself, a dead colliery.

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Example Bank

2

01

"You'll get pinched if you try to go in swimming there," Jack warned. "You needn't think there are more no cops because you're out of New York. They have real coppy cops out here."

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But New England’s shut down, so is Colwick Wood: yes, it’s fair haunting to go through that coppy and see Colwick Wood standing there deserted among the trees, and bushes growing up all over the pit-h

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, coppy is marked as informal, obsolete, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.