horse-coper

[ hawrs-koh-per ]

noun

, British.

1. coper.

Word History and Origins

Origin of horse-coper¹

First recorded in 1675–85

Example Sentences

We have talked together some four or five evenings now, and for all I am a horse-coper I can still, as the saying is, see holiness beyond the legs of a horse.

From Project Gutenberg

Writing to his mother, he said: 'The people having subscribed �25,000 for a memorial to an ugly bullock of a Hudson, who did not even pretend to have any merit except that of being suddenly rich, and who is now discovered to be little other than at heart a horse-coper and dishonest fellow, I think they ought to leave Cromwell alone of their memorials, and try to honour him in some more profitable way—by learning to be honest men like him, for example.

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At first Edward had better luck with his Lieutenant, a certain horse-coper or dealer.

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The artist-tramp, the tinker who p. 138can write, the horse-coper with a twang of Hamlet and a habit of Monte-Cristo—that is George Borrow. 

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He was said to be half silly, at any rate an original, almost in his dotage, living by any lucky bits that he could make as horse-coper and veterinary.

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