Cop vs Cog - What's the difference?

cop | cog |

As nouns the difference between cop and cog

is that cop is a spider while cog is a ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.

As verbs the difference between cop and cog

is that cop is to obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take while cog is to furnish with a cog or cogs.

cop

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) coppe, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A spider.

Etymology 2

Possibly from (etyl) , from (etyl) kapia, to buy.

Verb

(copp)

to obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take

* 2005 , Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home , Simon & Schuster, page 10:

Heroin appeared on the streets of our town for the first time, and Innie watched helplessly as his sixteen-year-old brother began taking the train to Harlem to cop smack.

to (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father

to steal

to adopt

No need to cop an attitude with me, junior.

to admit, especially to a crime.

I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?

Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".

Derived terms

* cop a feel * cop a plea * cop off * cop on * cop out, cop-out

Etymology 3

Short for above, i.e. a criminal.

Noun

(en noun)

(slang, law enforcement) A police officer or prison guard.

Synonyms

* See also

Etymology 4

(etyl) cop, copp, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.

Noun

(en noun)

(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.

(obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.

* Drayton

Cop they used to call / The tops of many hills.

(obsolete) The head.

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

(architecture, military) A merlon.

Anagrams

References

cog

English

(wikipedia cog)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from (etyl) . See below.

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.

*, Bk.V, Ch.iv:

*:As the Kynge was in his cog and lay in his caban, he felle in a slumberyng.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) (compare (etyl) . The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.

Noun

(en noun)

A tooth on a gear

A gear; a cogwheel

An unimportant individual in a greater system.

* 1976, Norman Denny (English translation),

‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’

* 1988,

Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do , then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog .

(carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.

(mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

Derived terms

* cog joint

Verb

(cogg)

To furnish with a cog or cogs.

Etymology 3

Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.

Noun

(en noun)

A trick or deception; a falsehood.

(William Watson)

Verb

(cogg)

to load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat

to cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently

* Jonathan Swift

For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog .

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

* Shakespeare

I'll cog their hearts from them.

To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.

to cog in a word

* J. Dennis

Fustian tragedies have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.

Etymology 4

From (etyl) cogge

Alternative forms

* cogue

Noun

(en noun)

A small fishing boat

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