Couper
noun
noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A dealer in horses or other livestock. UK, obsolete
"I think the Yorkshire story of the farmer who sold his old horse to a couper at a fair, then got very drunk on his good bargain, and bought him back at the end of the day with painted legs and filed teeth as a young horse, might have a kindred story among Daffodil-bulb buyers."
Example
More examples"I think the Yorkshire story of the farmer who sold his old horse to a couper at a fair, then got very drunk on his good bargain, and bought him back at the end of the day with painted legs and filed teeth as a young horse, might have a kindred story among Daffodil-bulb buyers."
Etymology
From coup (“to exchange, barter”) + -er.
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