As verbs the difference between caper and coper
is that caper is to leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance while coper is to cut.
As a noun caper
is a frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank or caper can be a vessel formerly used by the dutch; privateer or caper can be the pungent grayish green flower bud of the european and oriental caper (capparis spinosa ), which is pickled and eaten or caper can be (scotland) the capercaillie.
caper
Etymology 1
Shortening of capriole.
Noun
(
en noun)
A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank.
A crime, especially theft, or a narrative about such a crime.
Derived terms
* cut a caper
Verb
(
en verb)
To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) kaper.
Noun
(
en noun)
A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) capparis.
Noun
(
en noun)
The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa ), which is pickled and eaten.
A plant of the genus Capparis .
Synonyms
* caper bush, caper tree, caperberry
Derived terms
* caperberry
Etymology 4
Shortening of capercaillie.
Noun
(
en noun)
(Scotland) The capercaillie.
Anagrams
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coper
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(
en noun)
One who copes.
* 2001 , Lawrence C. R. Snyder, Coping with Stress (page 244)
- And people who were adaptive copers early in life are likely to cope successfully with the losses that they encounter late in life.
Etymology 2
Noun
(
en noun)
(British) A floating grog shop supplying the North Sea fishing industry.
Anagrams
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