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coppish

Syllables: cop·pishUK/ˈkɒpɪʃ/US/ˈkɑpɪʃ/

coppish adjective: characteristic of or resembling a cop (“police officer”). Also the alternative spelling of capisce.

Adjective

coppish (comparative more coppish, superlative most coppish)

  1. (US, slang) Characteristic of or resembling a cop (“police officer”).
    • “Are you a policeman?” Conroy said. I gave him my most coppish deadpan stare.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
    • "I know I'm going to sound suspicious and very policelike—" / "You're allowed to sound coppish … it's in your DNA," Laura assured him.2011, Holly Jacobs [pseudonym; Holly Fuhrmann], chapter 5, in A Father’s Name (Harlequin SuperRomance), Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 106
    Synonyms:
    coplike, policelike

Noun

coppish (plural coppishes)

  1. (Wales) The fly of a pair of trousers.
    • 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.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...

Also used as

coppish is also the alternative spelling of capisce.

Synonyms of coppish

Forms of coppish

Adjective
comparativemore coppish
superlativemost coppish
Noun
pluralcoppishes

Origin of coppish

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

See capisce.

A variant of codpiece.

Questions about coppish

What does coppish mean?
Coppish means characteristic of or resembling a cop (“police officer”).
What part of speech is coppish?
Coppish can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce coppish?
Coppish is pronounced /ˈkɒpɪʃ/ (UK).

Words near coppish in the dictionary

  1. copping the needle
  2. Coppinger
  3. coppins
  4. coppis
  5. coppises
  6. coppish
  7. coppishes
  8. copple
  9. copple dust
  10. copple-crown
  11. copple-crowns

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