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Coppy

adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Like or resembling a cop (police officer). informal

    ""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. 1
    A low stool. UK, dialectal
  2. 2
    Alternative form of coppice. alt-of, alternative

    "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."

  3. 3
    Obsolete form of copy. alt-of, obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From cop + -y.

Etymology 2

From a diminutive (with + -y) of Middle English *cop, found in Middle English copstole, copstule (“a kind of stool”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English copy, a back-formation from copies, copyes, koppis (“coppice, copse”), mistaken as a plural.

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