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Coper vs Cower - What's the difference?

coper | cower |

As verbs the difference between coper and cower

is that coper is to cut while cower is to crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear or cower can be (obsolete|transitive) to cherish with care.

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

    * ----

    cower

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) kuren or from Scandinavian ((etyl) . Unrelated to coward, which is of Latin origin.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
    • He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.
  • * Dryden
    • Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.
  • * Goldsmith
    • Like falcons, cowering on the nest.
    See also
    * coward * cowardice

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cherish with care.
    • (Webster 1913)